About the Episode

Are you ready for some seriously professional football? The NFL returns tonight, and for those of us who have been unhappy with some of the less than professional CFL brand in recent weeks, especially the sickening head butting of Winnipeg quarterback, Zach Collaros in Regina, it’s good to know that the gold standard for tackle football, the NFL, is back with the Lions and the Chiefs. I can absolutely guarantee you that if any Detroit Lion delivers a headbutt to Patrick Mahomes with the Kansas City Chiefs, that lion will get mauled by the refs and fans, leadership of the chiefs, and the leadership of the National Football League. I don’t like headbutts, as you can tell. I don’t like ’em, and fake wrestling. It gives kids boneheaded ideas on how to behave. But there is no limit to my contempt for headbutting in football. And by the way, the offender with the Rough Riders- Peterson, his name- got a one game suspension. He should have been tossed for the balance of the season.

US News and World Report issues a list every year of the best countries on the planet. Switzerland, number one this year. Number two, Canada. The US is five. Look, I get that some political people get mileage declaring Canada is broken, but it is not. The US magazine knows it. We know it. If Canada is broken at number two, what does that say about Sweden which comes in third? Australia that’s number four? You want to look the Swedes and Aussies in the eye and tell them that they are broken? You’d only be embarrassing yourself. And I’m embarrassed for any Canadian who thinks our country is broken.

The Ombudsman in Ontario. His name was Paul Dubay. He’s just released a devastating report. It says 750 Ontario seniors died during COVID. They died in care homes that lacked inspection by Doug Ford’s government. They died in a system that collapsed. The Ombudsman says staff did not get the training required to support patients. 750 dead seniors, and the blood is on the hands of the provincial government.

Apple has a stock market problem. It shares are getting hammered because of a story out of China that says the Chinese government will ban government employees from using iPhones as their work phones.