I encountered Thomas Bachelder last Sunday at Toronto Hot Docs Theatre for a showing of “Crush; Message in a Bottle” and we exchanged brief pleasantries. Bachelder, Kelly Mason, Shiraz Mottiar and Anne-Marie Saunders were expressing their views as to growing grapes and making wine in the Niagara region of Ontario. I expressed my agreement withContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Bachelder Wismer Foxcroft 2021 Gamay Noir: Ontario Gamay Noir Establishing Itself in Ontario”
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RKS 2023 Film: “Pay or Die”: You Will Understand Big Pharma Profiteering on Insulin in The United States: The Solution Seems Typically American
Those who suffer from Type 1 diabetes require multiple daily insulin injections failing which diabetic ketoacidosis sets in and death ensues. Quite simple isn’t it? A vial of insulin currently sells for $10 in Italy, $12 in Canada and $14 in Japan. In the United States when the film was produced $300. Three Pharma’s controlContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Pay or Die”: You Will Understand Big Pharma Profiteering on Insulin in The United States: The Solution Seems Typically American”
RKS Literature: England as a Hijacker and The United States as a Terrorist? (James Baldwin)
“Who, indeed, has hijacked more than England has, for example, or is more skilled in the uses of terror than my own unhappy country? Yes, I know: nevertheless children, what goes around comes around, what you send out comes back to you. A terrorist is called that only because he does not have the powerContinue reading “RKS Literature: England as a Hijacker and The United States as a Terrorist? (James Baldwin)”
RKS 2023 Film: “Iman”: Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada (GIFFT): Deception and Loneliness Begets Explosive Conclusions
2023 will be the third year for GIFFT and it is packed with full length, short films and documentaries from Greece or films produced by Greeks outside of Greece. The Greek film industry has developed to a level of excellence over the last 10 years and here is a chance for Canadians to immerse themselvesContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Iman”: Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada (GIFFT): Deception and Loneliness Begets Explosive Conclusions”
RKS 2023 Film: “A Song Film by Kishi Bashi”: ‘Omoiyari’: American “Concentration Camps” for Japanese Americans
Internationally acclaimed Japanese American composer and songwriter Karou Ishibashi with his stage name of Kishi Bashi takes us on a journey of history and self discovery and offers a glimpse of a less than logical and reasoned United States President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 to designate exclusionary zones where in Goebbelistic fashion anyone of JapaneseContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “A Song Film by Kishi Bashi”: ‘Omoiyari’: American “Concentration Camps” for Japanese Americans”
Memories of Dylan Stephen: A Westie Now in The Land Beyond: Mindfulness and Dogs: Live in the Moment
Master Robert has been certified by two universities in mindfulness. I listened in to one or two of his courses on ZOOM during that accursed COVID. Lots of living in the moment, acceptance, forgiveness, meditation and lots of stuff my limited vocabulary prevented me from understanding. On one of our walks Master Robert tried toContinue reading “Memories of Dylan Stephen: A Westie Now in The Land Beyond: Mindfulness and Dogs: Live in the Moment”
RKS 2023 Wine: Stag’s Hollow Tragically Vidal: Can They Elevate the Vacuous Vidal?
Stag’s Hollow in British Columbia has shown it can do wonders with Vidal. Much is grown in Ontario primarily for ice-wine. As a table wine it is about equally uninspiring as Muscat. Cloying without personality. Wine snobs might point to Vidal as a lowly French Hybrid grown in marginal wine climes. I am no suchContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Stag’s Hollow Tragically Vidal: Can They Elevate the Vacuous Vidal?”
Dylan Stephen: A Deceased Dog Says His Final Good-Bye and Imparts Words of Advice
Firstly let’s get the boring stuff out of the way. My name was Dylan Stephen. I also had a least twenty nicknames. I particularly liked “Pumpkin” and “Dilby”. I was and always will be a West Highland Terrier a proud and mighty Scot. Brave, loyal, stubborn and highly loveable. Treat me with love and respectContinue reading “Dylan Stephen: A Deceased Dog Says His Final Good-Bye and Imparts Words of Advice”
RKS 2023 Wine: Delving into Vinho Verde: Ho Hum Maria Papoila
Yes from a Portuguese tourism perspective there is more than Porto, Lisbon and the Algarve. I was playing some catch today and as the baseball was zipping to and fro I looked over to the hockey rink resting for the summer and I saw some graffiti on the wall “Pickleball is the new virus!”. WellContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Delving into Vinho Verde: Ho Hum Maria Papoila”
RKS Wine 2023: KISSING Montepulciano D’Abruzzo
A good Montepulciano D’Abruzzo is simple and satisfying. Perhaps like this commentary. Oh, I should add while in the corporate world one of the slogans I encountered (or better said was battered over my head for a particular year) was Keep It Simply Simple (KISS). You might wish to observe that everything could be keptContinue reading “RKS Wine 2023: KISSING Montepulciano D’Abruzzo”
