If you live in Toronto – or if you live near Toronto – I’m extending an invitation.

This afternoon starting at about 4 p.m., my kids and I will participate in Community Centre 55’s annual Share A Christmas campaign.  If you’re nearby, and you have time, you should, too.

In Share A Christmas, we deliver food and toys to hundreds of families in Toronto’s East End.  Families apply to receive the food baskets and toys, and they come all faiths and walks of life.  We’ve delivered food to community housing neighbourhoods, but also to addresses where families have fallen on bad luck, or worse.  For my kids, it is always an eye-opener, and it always leaves a big (and positive) impression on them.  You get rewarded in a special way, too.

C’mon by.  You – and we – will be glad you did.

Details are here. We converge on Centre 55 at 97 Main Street, between Kingston Road and Gerrard, at about 4 p.m.  We get food – and, if there are kids in the family, toys too – and start delivering right away.  It’s an amazing program, and one that helped more than 600 families last year.

Hope to see you there.

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The original.  The 2010 version.  Don’t try this at home, kids, without adult supervision.

“As the assembled Conservatives watched, horrified – and as the many more Liberals present looked on, delighted – Chretien slapped the fabled “Shawinigan Handshake” on Harris.

The devilish move, from which few ever recover, traces its origins back to February 1996, when Chretien was wading his way through a crowd in Hull, Que., and a group of anti-poverty protesters mobbed him.

One of the protesters, Bill Clennett, tried to block the prime ministerial path.

Big mistake.”

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To ensure my picks are better understood, I start yelling like a madman. Peggy, meanwhile, reacts to her eardrum being damaged.

At about the 1:43 mark, or something like that.

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The guy who was punished for opposing intolerance has been reinstated.

And the guy who was actually intolerant, and wasn’t punished, has apologized.

Sanity is restored, and before Christmas too.

I’m still cranky after the insurance-less buffoon demo’d the rear end of my car, however.

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Pulling into the Canadian Tire near my office this morning, and a guy slams into my rear bumper and quarter panel. Interestingly, he doesn’t have his insurance information on him. I am now at one of the three “Accident Support Service” offices in the City of Toronto.

Three. For a city of five million people.

Whatever Christmas spirit I possessed is now fully gone.

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“…it’s all being done in secret, without even a 10-minute chit-chat in Parliament. And it’s going to be announced next month by the prime minister and U.S. President Barack Obama when, coincidentally, the House of Commons is not sitting.

In effect, Mr. Harper is erasing the border between Canada and the United States.

And, to get little, he is trading away too much.”

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So there we were at Charlie and Tenio’s annual Gentlemen’s Lunch, having a festive time, and all of a sudden – what to our astonished eyes should appear, etc. – a nasty political scrap over by the bar!

I am reliably informed the fellow from Northern Ontario was not victorious.

photo © WK

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…dogs are going after the cat vote, apples and oranges are the same thing, and oil and water have been miraculously made one.

Thank you. That is all.

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Sounds like we’re going to get one!

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