[rant] That’s the only conclusion I can draw from the Story in the today’s Globe about the 25th anniversary of the Charter, which found (among other things) that 2/3 of Canadians support the idea of elected judges. The thing about judges is that most of the time if you don’t like what they’re doing, youcontinue reading
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Imperia
A week or so ago Joanne Kates favourably reviewed Imperia, a new Italian restaurant close to our place, so we decided to give them a try for my birthday. I think it’s fair to say we weren’t as bowled over as Joanne but nevertheless they seem to have a good product at a decent price.continue reading
He’s Everywhere!
Today’s Globe has a thing on Corrado.
Not any better for cats than for counters, apparently
Hills MD Prescription diet dry food is contaminated with melamine. This is starting to get a bit close to home.
Firefox
…is crashing on me roughly every other day. Is this consistent with others’ experience, or am I just a bad Mozilla owner? (I don’t think I’m trying to do anything especially crash-inducing)
Mild weirdness
Does anyone know what the source of the first comment on the Via Oliveto thread is?
Via Oliveto
… has closed. I remember the last time we went there was after their big makeover. The place looked nice but the food seemed to have slipped a notch or two, and we didn’t go back. In other news, it looks like the City is installing traffic lights at Bloor and Walmer. Which brings ancontinue reading
Damn
Apparently good wine is just as bad for you as bad wine.
Mildly funny
Professor Socrates’ teaching evaluations.
Two modern operas
It’s been almost a month since we saw Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites (in Chicago) in the same week. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District is an early-ish work by Shostakovich, the cause of his first denunciation by Stalin and so one of the last works he composed without any consciousness of thecontinue reading