Susan Koswan, the one-hit wonder, the one trick pony, the broken record, has another column up today. Chicken Little is telling us that the federal government’s recently announced ban on stir sticks and other “single use” plastics, is a good start to our national goal of zero waste by 2030. But, she suggests that the “province’s 2030 target for diversion rates from landfill is only 55 per cent for rigid plastics and 30 per cent for flexible plastic” and this isn’t going to achieve the federal goal of zero waste by 2030. Look – the reason governments make such huge pronouncements about wonderful future events 20 and 30 years into the future, is because they simply have no desire to meet these impossible goals. In 30 years, every one of them will be out of politics and most of them will be dead. So, why not make lofty, unrealistic goals since they won’t be around to see them unfulfilled? The only good thing about stupid goals like this is that Koswan has one more thing to complain about. She reminds me of everyone’s Evil Aunt Gertrude – you know, the old woman who has at least 4 cats living with her.
Raymond Beauchemin is an editor at TorStar. He wrote a little, mythical short story about what might happen if President Trump lost the next election and if President Trump didn’t relinquish power and if President Trump didn’t leave the White House. Mindless drivel from a poor soul suffering from terminal TDS. Very sad. But Beauchemin didn’t publish this fantasy on his FaceBook page, or on his website, or someplace where a few of his friends could view it at laugh behind his back. No, he published it on the Editorial and Opinion page of The Record today!!! I can’t think of a more clear cut example of just how far The Record has fallen… Brutal. Less than pathetic.