The beginning of the golf season may be riddled with April frost delays but that is the beginning and the golf hormones are raging. The frost delays creep back in late October and early November. Yes it is like the end of a life of a spawning salmon. Tee-Off times can be delayed anywhere fromContinue reading ““My Life as a Golf Marshall” :The Beginning of The End”
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RKS Film: Looking for a New Christmas Classic? “See You Next Christmas”
I am sure you have a favourite Christmas classic. Is it National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation”? “Home Alone”? “A Christmas Carol”? “White Christmas”? “It’s a Wonderful Life”? Looking for something new? Might you find it in “See You Next Christmas”? Annie (Christine Weatherup) and Tom Clark (Vin Vescio) hold their annual Christmas party “Clarkmas” in theContinue reading “RKS Film: Looking for a New Christmas Classic? “See You Next Christmas””
RKS Wine: The Forgotten Home of Malbec and Don’t Toss Those Green Tomatoes!
Mention the grape Malbec and the rubberneckers will be gawking at Argentina ignoring that Malbec began its journey from its home in Cahors in Southwest France to Argentina in the 1830’s. Argentina gets most of the praise for Malbec and it is rare that one encounters a Malbec from Cahors. In the Malbec game theContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Forgotten Home of Malbec and Don’t Toss Those Green Tomatoes!”
RKS Wine: Chasing the Lower Priced Bordeaux
Bordeaux wines can be a rich man’s game. You pay a pile of dough for the “first growths” which if you are made of money go ahead. Are some of these wines in the $1,000 range worth it or is the purchaser a billionaire thinking the more you pay the higher the quality? Part ofContinue reading “RKS Wine: Chasing the Lower Priced Bordeaux”
Ontario’s Bill 27’s Toothless Disconnect from Work Policy
The idea that an employee can disconnect from work is not new as I first heard about this type of legislation in France a few years ago There is no doubt in the proposed legislation that it is intended the Employment Standards Act of Ontario will be amended to include the text below this article.Continue reading “Ontario’s Bill 27’s Toothless Disconnect from Work Policy”
RKS Film: “Isaac”: Almost Fine Until Lust Blows Up
I watched “Isaac” a Spanish film that leaves me wondering what the message is? In fact I have been ruminating all day what to say about the film. Perhaps that is a supreme compliment to the film that can’t be sliced and diced and simplified into a few descriptive lines. The distributor of the filmContinue reading “RKS Film: “Isaac”: Almost Fine Until Lust Blows Up”
RKS Wines: Should Portugal’s Douro Be Looking Over Its Shoulder to the Surging Alentejano?
In terms of the volume of Portuguese wines coming into Canada the Douro, leads the pack. The Douro produces top quality wines but since the grapes used in their winemaking are largely indigenous one might say their excellence is predictable. On the other hand the region in second place, Alentejano, produces excellent wines as wellContinue reading “RKS Wines: Should Portugal’s Douro Be Looking Over Its Shoulder to the Surging Alentejano?”
RKS Wine: Crasto A Classic Douro Red
I will admit I have a soft spot for Quinta do Crasto perched above the Douro River in Portugal. Going out in the fields and trying grapes on the vine and then trying to trace them in the wine. Eating lunch with the field workers which you often do as a journalist visiting a quintaContinue reading “RKS Wine: Crasto A Classic Douro Red”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog Is Back: “We Rescue Dogs Are All Hurting”
You have been reading about my adventures and thank you for so doing. These adventures are perhaps the most amazing that ever have been experienced by any dog let alone a rescue dog. Winning a Nobel Prize for literature, hanging out with Drake, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot, President Biden and his wife, being on national televisionContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog Is Back: “We Rescue Dogs Are All Hurting””
“Mutantism on the March” : Chapter 109: Protests Against the 76 Montreal Summer Olympics
Jiber had been whisked off to Zortixia by Frizzy The Smicket Boy to face a trial for crimes against inhabitants of the galaxy so with him many problems disappeared. But deal with one struggle and defeat it another one appears. The United Mutations were fighting against the sinful expenditures Montreal was becoming heavily indebted forContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” : Chapter 109: Protests Against the 76 Montreal Summer Olympics”
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