Jeff Allan blogs about the news stories everyone is talking about, providing his opinions, passion and the answers to listeners’ big questions. Also, you can tune into his talk show, “The Jeff Allan Show,” on 570News, weekdays at 9 a.m.
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Vancouver Riots: What A Lesson!
The Vancouver Riot following the Stanley Cup Final will be analyzed and discussed by social scientists, academics, politicians and all of us as time passes. I hope the real lesson to be learned is absorbed, processed and embraced by everyone. In my opinion that lesson is this; human beings have not evolved all that much in the
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Federal Election Fallout
I was amused by the “Disruptive Parliamentary Page” who defiantly held up and aimed a sign directly at the camera during the Throne speech by our Governor General last week. I thought “way ta go kid you’ll be able to talk about this all of your life” because at her age (21) her crowd, her friends along with people
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Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr was on my program today and I’m still not down from the clouds! I’ve interviewed an assortment of famous people during my time here at 570NEWS/Rogers TV Cable 20 but not one of them made me feel like Bobby Orr did today. I am so lucky and privileged to have had the opportunity to
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Concussions: I Wonder?
With all we know about concussions now it occurred to me today that there must be a lot of old athletes like me who actually had one or two and did nothing about it. The only thing they did back in my day was keep a person awake until they were sure the patient wouldn’t
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LRT in The Waterloo Region
Since we’re getting what the Regional Council says we’re getting no matter what any of us says at this point you should go to the Region’s website to see what you and I will be paying for. For many of you who believe they’re “just going to rip up King St. again” I sympathize with
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Political Parties And Their Followers Are Never Happy!
It’s tough working through any election because we have to try and be balanced plus we have to give Political Parties “equitable time”. That is to say if we have The Liberals on the show, we have to make an effort to get both the NDP and the Conservatives on as well and in many
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Weather Changes: Never a dull moment.
I know it’s an old Canadian saying but I don’t think there’s been a week of weather changes like the week we just went through in a long time so the expression “if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes” would have worked every day of the last ten days including today. Last night it
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Dwight Duncan: Blackberry Playbook
Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is testing out a new Playbook. He says he’s having fun learning how to use it. Everything is going well and it’s fun right now but wait til he has to do math on it; the fun will be over. With a deficit as large as Ontario’s it’s obvious he’s
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Elizabeth May
Some people from an unknown organization left me voice-mails this week to express their anger over the fact that I don’t believe the Green Party leader should be included in the debates next week. Some suggested that I’m a woman hater and I take great offence to that. I work with woman everyday; you ask
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Ignatieff’s Not the Only One
A lot of people think Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is the wrong guy for the job of Prime Minister because he lived outside of Canada for 35 years and they’re entitled to their opinion. I’m not endorsing him but I don’t think it should matter. If he became Prime Minister he wouldn’t be the first
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I Apologise: Boy Did I Suck
Over three hours have passed since my show ended and I’m still angry about my last hour with you today. I apologise because I sucked, I could have done a few things better, that’s why I’m still bugged about it now. First, I should have allowed more time to talk about the 11am topic regarding a
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Why Can’t We Do It A Better Way?
We have to get rid of plastic bags. Why can’t we do it a better way? I was loading my San Francisco Vacation pictures today on the Face Book site and I put up a shot of a brown paper bag. The bag is strong and Eco friendly, what else do you want? I loaded a few
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Nuclear Spill At Pickering
Apparently a small amount of radiation was released into lake Ontario today at the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant. The Ontario Power people say it’s nothing to worry about saying it was just a small amount that is well under the allowable limit. The timing is very convenient isn’t it? I’ve already heard a rumour that a worker that
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Japan: I’m Stunned!
This afternoon I was watching video footage of the tsunami wiping out a village. The pictures were capture by someone who had obviously fled their home for higher ground and it sounded like this person was surrounded by their neighbours because of the sobbing and crying in the background. The water seemed to ooze into the valley slowly
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Good Came Out Of Bad!
So I was watching my nephew’s hockey game on TV this Sunday afternoon when all of a sudden the screen goes black. It was OK because his team was losing anyway. The Barrie Kingston game did not come back on so I switched over to the Rangers Ottawa game without the TV sound turned on. I then decided
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I Smell A Federal Election Coming Soon
I have a 50/50 chance of being right on this so here it goes; I believe a federal election is on the way soon. I’ve been doing this job for a while now and I’ve been through two municipal elections, two federal and one provincial with another one coming this fall. I have this feeling that
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Right Wing v Left Wing: A Wing Nut Got It Wrong
Today on the program we were talking about the Provincial Liberal government’s plan to eliminate fraud in regards to “Special Diet” allowances for folks on Disability. According to the Liberal government fraud has increased 1200% over the last half decade and they want people to prove they need the supplemental payments. Liberals are usually considered
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The Homeless Are Everywhere
Sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees in our busy lives. When we get time off we can sometimes see the big picture more clearly; not because it’s right in front of us, but because our eyes are wide open. I experienced this during my trip to San Francisco. The Homeless situation was always bad
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Super Bowl: Too Much Hype!
I’m posting this at 5:39pm on Super Bowl Sunday. Okay, this has gone too far. Is a 4 hour Pre-Game Show really necessary? The game won’t last that long. I’m an ex-jock, a guy, a football fan but this is too much. It’s still goning to be a while before the game starts!
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Egypt: Some People Will Never Trust Muslims
We’ve been discussing Egypt on the show this week and the Islamaphobes raised their heads. It didn’t matter what experts I spoke with said, it didn’t matter what a Canadian born student from an Egyptian family who was in Cairo when the demonstrations began said, it didn’t matter what news organizations, Internet sources and politicians said; the Islamaphobes took aim at Muslims
