SALLY BARNES

My dear Prime Minister: This unworthy servant has a suggestion for how you can quickly and easily bolster your public opinion ratings and strengthen Canadians’ resolve to battle the pandemic: SHAVE OFF THAT BEARD AND GET A HAIR CUT !!!!! And while you’re at it, ditch that funeral director’s woeful coat and show us your kinky socks! As a successful politician and former drama teacher, you understand the importance of a good performance and making a favourable impression. (W

As we struggle through the pandemic fog to understand what’s happening around us, some issues are just no-brainers. First of all, in the immortal words of the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke: “what we got here is failure to communicate.” “Today, we are seeing some sunlight break through the clouds,” chief cheerleader Premier Doug Ford crowed this week to an increasingly weary, frustrated and cynical public as pandemic restrictions were lifted in some areas like ours. But not so fas