An unidentified  person familiar with the covert negotiations indicated that once the present Trumpster fire is extinguished , the real devil’s work can begin with someone on contract who really knows how to play the religious card!

Maxime Bernier in a stroke of marketing genius has named his new party the People’s Party of Canada.

“For too long Canadian politics has been hijacked by party poopers like interest groups, cartels, lobbies, international groups, corporate or union interests of politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa who are disconnected from ordinary citizens who want to party…whoooo!,” he whooped.

Because of Canadian content regulations Court Painter was obligated to include …well…a wee bit of Canadian content.Can you spot it?

The issue should have stayed in the political realm and out of the courts all along, University of Waterloo political science professor Emmett Macfarlane suggested.

“I think it’s bad decision after bad decision. I think it was manifestly unfair for the Ford government to drop this in the middle of a municipal election. I think the judge yesterday overreached in striking down the law,” he said. “And I think the use of the notwithstanding clause is an imprudent decision to defend an imprudent law.”

Apologies to American painter John Singleton Copley and his painting Watson and the Shark (1778)

Knot theory is a very fast growing field of mathematics.  Knots are not natural phenomena, and there exists only a finite number of distinct knots in three-dimensional space. Knots define spaces, because we can think of a knot as a way in which different dimensions can be connected. Mathematicians are working on notation systems for knots, which leads to a form of arithmetic for knots.

And then there is politics!

Unzipped: A Condensed History of Court Painter’s Secret Life’ 

 

Court Painter dominates a portrait of his painter nemesis  ( name available upon request) in the library of Court Painter’s studio.

Continuing over  his lifetime, the Great Dominion’s Court Painter  is  viewed as occasionally sober, serious and competent. But when his diaries were made public after his Press Attache leaked them, the world learned that he communed with peelers and the spirit world while imbibing copious amounts of spirits, earning him the nickname “Weird Willy.”

 

Court Painter and his stuffed dog Stuffy

Court Painter isn’t the Great Dominions most charismatic portrait painter. Nor is he the most popular.

But he is the longest serving, holding the Court Painter studio together for 5 years. And he is a respected portraitist  — so much so that when he had a studio exhibition, close to a dozen people stood in line (in the torrential rain) to visit as he collected pennies as admission.

And then, in the 2018s, his most private thoughts began to leak into the public sphere.

Random gossip traces the transformation of the public’s knowledge and opinion of Court Painter’s character.

Thousands of pages of hand scribbled diaries, spanning many years, exposed him as an oddball and eccentric who hung out with oddballs and eccentrics— a lifelong bar fly and adorer of his stuffed  dog, he availed himself of hookers and quilters and communed with the spiritual world.

Suddenly the “master painter” earned a slew of new nicknames, including Weird Willy and the “dingbat in the Ingelwood belfry”.

The story of the diaries —and the secrets, melodrama and backroom dealings associated with Court Painter — is revealed in his Press Attaches new self published tell all booklet Unzipped, A History of Court Painter’s Secret Life.

 

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.”
― William Shakespeare,Twelfth Night