Which hat do you prefer?

Image capture from the camera test for my feature film video trailer shoot tomorrow with ACTRA apprentice Andrew Russell... which hat do you think looks better for a seasoned, 20ish year old frontier Alberta cowboy?

We will be using the trailer to raise funds for the $11m western.

Bill Gates Foundation is experimenting on Africans

Reminds me of the syphilis experiments that the U.S. Public Health Service and Tuskegee University conducted on black males from 1932 to 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama. A total of 600 impoverished men were injected with live syphilis.... disgraceful!

HAPPY KWANZAA EVERYONE!!

FYI: Kwanzaa is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. 

The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1

The UN Blue Helmets are our best option

Canada hasn't had a Prime Minister that didn't take orders from America since Kim Campbell was PM (1993). 

The big three countries have under-staffed and under-funded the Blue Helmets for decades because America, Russia and China don't want a neutral, armed police force interfering with their military's enforcement of the big three's economic and political agenda.

Read the story on CTV News

Milk and cookies for Santa

Hope Santa won't mind just almond milk and a granola bar - we're vegetarians.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my grandkids Zyg and Mila Ramsay

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Zyg and Mila

Hope you have a happy and healthy 2019

Love you a lot..... Grandfather (A.G.)

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Was your dinner treated humanely?

Check out the article by Riana Topan in  HUFFINGTON POST

Happy Birthday Cicely Tyson

Looking good on your 94th birthday

Merry December to everyone!

Tree is finally up... so to all my tens of thousands of Blogsphere Friends throughout the world...

Happy Bodhi Day, Saint Nicholas' Christmas Day, Saint Stephen's, Saint John the Evangelist's, Holy Innocents', Saint Sylvester's Day, Pancha Ganapati, Ganesha, Malkh, Saturnalia Hanukkah, Yule, Yalda, Zamenhof, Soyal, HumanLight, Newtonmas, Quaid-e-Azam's Day, Kwanza, Watch Night and Happy Chalica 

I think I've pretty well covered all of December's festivities.

"Time to terminate 'assisted dying' - Forbes Magazine

Just ran across this article while reading a back copy of Forbes Magazine.

"What's happing here is an ugly, slippery slope. Instead of working to alleviate the tribulations of the affected and innovating ever better ways to do this, we simply 'put them out of their misery,' the way we do household pets."... Says Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief.

Read his column HERE

Happy Birthday Michelle Ramsay and J. Gilles Boulais - Quarry Ridge Dr.

"Among the Jacaranda" is a great story by an excellent writer

Just received in the mail a copy of Braz Menezes's new novel Among the Jacaranda. For your own copy, send Braz a DM on his FACEBOOK page.

Senior severely injured in nursing home

My friend Mr. Fuchs was killed in an Ottawa nursing home. In general, staff are undertrained, underpaid and inspectors are few. That situation has to change. Please write/email/speak to your local government representative.

Read the story in the Toronto Star

International Day of Persons With Disabilities

Today is the United Nations 26th Annual Day of Persons with Disabilities

Boxing, football, MMA and rugby

"Stupid is what stupid does" said Forrest Gump and he was likely referring to gladiator sports like boxing, hockey, rugby, American football and MMA. 

If some humans (mostly us men) are so un-evolved as a species that we are compelled to watch this stuff, and athletes are stupid enough to allow their bodies and brains to be bashed about, then government should just make such 'sports' unlawful.

Read the story on CBC News

Photo session with Janice Reid and Denise Herrera-Jackson

A fun break during my session assisting photographer Janice Reid as she took portraits of

Denise Herrera-Jackson, CEO of the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival and member of the Programming Committee at the Harbourfront Centre.

Photo session was taking place at the BAND Gallery on Queen St. West, Toronto

Thank you Rosa Parks

On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to sit at the back of the bus. Her arrest ignited the civil rights movement. Thank you Ms. Parks.

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty." ..Henry David Thoreau