This is a letter to the editor of the Toronto Globe & Mail July 15, 2010 from Janice McAlpine. I want to be sure it gets as much exposure as possible:
“When our kids are 15 years old, we pray they’ll see 20. Omar Khadr almost didn’t make it. But in his case, [...]

Probably the sweetest natured dog I’ve ever met, year old Sadie the hound just ate her seventh leash. Polite and well-trained (for a hound), she was panting yesterday in the garden while the temperature hovered around 85.

Cat-lover though leash-eater, her passion still is other dogs. Weighing about [...]

When this blog started, I understood it was to let you know about the good times you could have in the downtown that you could not have in the suburban malls and shopping centres that surround our city like so many wolf dens circling a henhouse.
I began to write about the characters you [...]

I usually use one of these two graphics when I am in a protest rally. Either this picture enlarged, of my grandbaby on a stick or Giles old cranky granny with the saying: ‘Grannies Against Stupidity in Government.’
As a dedicated member of a group hoping to leave a better world for [...]

(Tune: White Sports Coat & A Pink Carnation)
by Rose DeShaw
The Three
Stooges
and BP Oil
Trussed us all up
For their dance
The three
Stooges
Pratfall with BP
Eye gouge with
Right wing rants.
Once they told us
Long ago
They were going green
You know
Now they changed their mind
It seems
Not a money-making scheme
The Three
Stooges
Drilled a hole too deep there
And now they all say:
‘Oooops!’
2) The Three
Stooges
Fiddling with
Our ocean
They [...]

I wrote this song last April when grandmothers I knew were tryng to get to Gaza. There are several more.
Posted: 04/29/09 Author: Rose DeShaw
Tune: The Water Is Wide (Old English Folk)
1)The Gaza Strip
is in the news
The push is on,
to make us choose
We have to say,
we choose the young
From every place
this war goes on
2) [...]

1)Tune: Done stayed around…this ol’ town too long
It wasn’t much of a government
But it was all we had
It was all we had, boys,
It was all we had
And now it’s gone on holidays
(That Harper’s quite the lad)
And we’ve got no parliament to carry on!
CHORUS
Done kept this kind
Done stood behind
This government too long
No results I’ve seen
I’m no [...]