Italy's horse of a different color

  Why I was disturbed by the Police images from Ottawa – and I think you should too Dedicated to my friend Duke. One day, brother, we'll meet and hug. Let me share with you some family lore. My father was the son of his father. Yes, I know, shocking. That should never have happened, but there you go. It so happened tough, that my grandfather, whom I am named after, was the fourth of five brothers in an hillside village in Piedmont, and eking a living out of what meager land and pastures were there. Of the five brothers, three emigrated to Argentina, one (“Zio Vittorio”) stayed to till the land, and my grandfather.. managed to enter the Carabinieri as a recruit, which brought him and our family out of poverty. He managed to study while he did that, finished the equivalent of GRAMMAR school, and passed the exam to join the NCO school. He went through the Second World war, partly in what is now Croatia and then being redeployed to Italy as security of a military airfield until...

  The forlorn Italian In Italy, very little has been said about what is transpiring in Canada (an unrelated article on another subject including some possible financial ramification will be out on Intelligence Quarterly shortly). The story is: protesters against draconian mandates engaged in a peaceful occupation of places in the capital and closed key infrastructure. I won't expand much more on this since there are some amazing journalists on the ground, and also some amazing , very well funded media who would have jumped at the scoop of finding these people engaged in any shenanigan, finaNcial or otherwise. For an example of the first go look for RupaSubramanya , she's amazing, as is the crew at Rebel News online etc. Of course, that mostly goes to prove that Sikhs pick better songs than natives when it's time to dance on the streets, or look at kids on the bouncy castles, but... you get the idea. Anyway, it was possible to help financially those people, even f...