Vinay Menon

1 week ago | hamiltonnews.com | Vinay Menon

There were no breakthroughs on trade or sovereignty. But on the upside, PM Mark Carney was not blindfolded and sent to an El Salvador gulag after his first meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday. When reality distorts like a funhouse mirror, you feel grateful for any glimpse of normal contours. Wait. These two leaders are having a cordial chat inside the gaudy Oval Office? No one is shouting or making threats? Give Mr. Carney an A+ for packing diplomacy into his carry-on.

1 week ago | therecord.com | Vinay Menon

There were no breakthroughs on trade or sovereignty. But on the upside, PM Mark Carney was not blindfolded and sent to an El Salvador gulag after his first meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday. When reality distorts like a funhouse mirror, you feel grateful for any glimpse of normal contours. Wait. These two leaders are having a cordial chat inside the gaudy Oval Office? No one is shouting or making threats? Give Mr. Carney an A+ for packing diplomacy into his carry-on.

1 week ago | wellandtribune.ca | Vinay Menon

A moment of silence to remember when Ryan Reynolds was cool. It started at birth. Then he was cool pretty much every day henceforth until a press release this week: “Tim Hortons partners with Ryan Reynolds to launch exciting new breakfast menu innovation in Canada and the U.S.”I’m not sure how “Ryan’s Scrambled Eggs” qualifies as culinary innovation when we’ve been scrambling eggs for hundreds of years. Next breakthrough: Ryan’s Poached Eggs? Ryan’s Sunny Side Up? What is happening at Tim Hortons?

1 week ago | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Vinay Menon

To get our minds off real problems, let’s discuss Hulk Hogan’s face. Now, I don’t want any trouble with Mr. Hogan. At 71, he is still capable of coming to my house and beating me with one of those folding chairs before putting me in traction with the Atomic Leg Drop. He has warrior DNA. He is a wrestling legend. What I must respectfully ask: Sir, do you own a mirror or did Trump steal them? The Hulkster was on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Vinay Menon

Life would be so easy if we could blame everything on Joe Biden. Speeding ticket? Joe Biden was driving! Broken dishwasher? Joe Biden put his dentures in the soap dispenser! Forgot your wedding anniversary? Sweetheart, Joe Biden did not remember when we got married! It’s his fault. Late tax filing? Joe Biden is my accountant!The Biden Boogeyman is all Donald Trump has left in his cratering presidency. On Wednesday, America received another economic gloom call.