There is a price to pay for everything and the ability of mistaken, dishonest, unscrupulous, so called pharmaceutical researchers and companies to disseminate advice to the public cheaply , by the internet or through your doctor is becoming a problem. It is becoming a danger to all our lives. I am exaggerating a bit. Not Continue Reading
e I guess this entry in my blog is about myself and Bianca Andreescu who made my tennis dream come true. I started playing tennis in the early 1940s at Bickford Park in the Harbord and Grace Street area of Toronto, and to be honest my interest was in the pretty girls playing there more Continue Reading
It had always been my contention that if only all the countries in the world became functioning democracies, wars, violence and turmoil would become events of the past. Winston Churchill in a speech many years ago said that democracy was a terrible system, but the best that man has been able to devise. In recent Continue Reading
As a Canadian-born Jew in his 80th year, the issue of anti-Semitism has been for me both a fascination and a horror. How can a mere se venteen million people, spread throughout the world over such an extended period of time, elicit so much antagonism and hatred? Why have Jews in Europe and the Middle Continue Reading
The United Nations has been a factor in the history of nations since the end of the second world war and even though its success has been more than limited, nations are proud to say they belong. It was to be sort of an area in which nations could act out of altruistic motives and Continue Reading
In an article written on December 9, 2008 under the heading “No borders exist for Racism, Sexism and Religious Intolerance” I described the human condition as encompassing the need for power, self-interest, hypocrisy and deceit. The recent incident involving the untimely death of Robert Dziekanski after being tasered by four R.C.M.P. officers in the Vancouver Continue Reading