Author Archives: Ronald Weihs

Ron and Judith in Italy 2021: Part 1 – Fiumicino and Venezia

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Ronald Weihs

Fiumicino – November 22 to 24

To Venezia

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The pandemic is the medium

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Ronald Weihs

When it started, I thought the interruption would be short. Life would revert. We’d get back to the headlong insanity that we called normal.

A year has passed, and that once-vivid world is just another memory. Like university.

Like that summer vacation, when you couldn’t wait to go back next year. Like Humphrey Bogart saying “we’ll always have Paris”.

Remember … Read the rest

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Atom Egoyan’s Guest of Honour, at the Playhouse

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Ronald Weihs
Poster for Guest of Honour. David Thewlis.

Atom Egoyan’s new film, Guest of Honour, was shot mostly in Hamilton. Last night, masks in place, we saw it at the Playhouse Cinema.

I am a great admirer of Atom Egoyan’s films. Yes, they are dark and brooding. Yes, they drift and ramble. I’m okay with that, because his vision is … Read the rest

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Limits to Common Sense

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Ronald Weihs

Today’s Hamilton Spectator (September 31, 2019) has an opinion piece by Matthew Lau in praise of economist Milton Friedman, founder of the “Chicago School” espousing the virtues of unrestrained free market capitalism. He cites two of Friedman’s ideas, which he treats as obvious:

  • “nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.”
  • “overwhelmingly, government is the source
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