Month: February 2026

Adrien just turned one and Mr. Gerard Lenorman will turn 80 tomorrow (https://tinyurl.com/yn2e4xj4). Happy birthday to both of them across the long miles!

Mr. Lenorman, we are grateful for your existence and talent, including your beautiful French song on Happiness, “La ballade des gens heureux” [The ballad of Happy People]. Bambi dedicates it to her cutest great nephew, wishing him to continue to be happy throughout his entire life.

Thank you Adrian—”farra habibi/habibna”—for being sooooo adorable! You are a ray of sunshine of joy to each one of us, relatives and friends, not only to your loving parents. Bambi and Louis love you, Adrien and family, beyond any songs’ lyrics or blog’s words 💚!

In Québec, Mr. Acher Sabbah, a 61-year-old man was sentenced to house arrest for having sexually assaulted a 13-year-old runaway girl from a youth centre (https://tinyurl.com/kuyhtsy7). Of note, five years ago, as per the Sûreté du Québec—the provincial national police—Mr. Sabbah was “believed to have committed crimes between 2015 and 2019 in the regions of Lachute in the Laurentians, Beauharnois in Montérégie, and Laval on the North Shore of Montreal” (https://tinyurl.com/yefa6n75). From La Presse (https://tinyurl.com/kuyhtsy7), we learn that this same man “was acquitted last month of sexual crimes against a minor by Judge Simon Dolci. He was accused of acts that allegedly occurred in 2006“.

Let’s put this story aside for a few second to focus on another story that took place recently in Halifax. A woman, Ms. Tracey Kitch, former CEO of the IWK, was sentenced to 9 months in jail, and went there handcuffed by the police after her trial, for a financial fraud. The latter consisted of charging personal expenses to her corporate credit card. According to CTV News, “Kitch resigned in 2017 and was charged with fraud over $5,000 in 2018, following an internal investigation by the hospital. An audit found Kitch used her hospital credit card to pay for roughly $47,000 in personal expenses. That money was reimbursed. A conservative estimate of more than $30,000 was the evidence presented at trial, consisting of personal flight passes and taxi chits (https://tinyurl.com/3y242nfw).

While Bambi does not deny that a financial fraud in public service is a bad act, why does the Canadian criminal system punish stealing money from a children’s hospital, but is more forgiving with child sexual abusers? And what about the young victims? Don’t they deserve a victim-centred justice system in a protective society?

What is believed to be one of the largest man-made, non-nuclear explosions in modern history, took place in the Lebanese capital 6.5 years ago. It was on the doomed August 4th 2020, precisely at 6:07 PM.

At the time, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 2750 tons of—unsafely stored—ammonium nitrate exploded at the port of Beirut, killing 220+ victims and injuring 7000+ residents (some of whom were toddlers; others, including parents, are still in the coma). Additionally, as reported in older posts, there were 800 regular floor admissions as well as 130 intensive care unit admissions, 300,000 instant homeless people, 150+ permanent disabilities, over 3/4 of massive destruction, total destruction of four hospitals, and US$15,000,000,000 worth of damage.

Over 6 years later, with tomorrow being the 6.5 year anniversary of this surreal tragedy, has justice been served? NO. Will it be ever served: LIKELY no. Will lessons be learned? History will tell.

Until then, thankfully, there is music to express the sorrow of the people of Beirut and to aspire for healing and hope. Thank you, Mr. Jean-Paul Hakim for your beautiful French song for Beirut.

May corruption, negligence, and arrogance end. May the seeds of accountability and civility finally grow in the land of impunity. It is about time.

On December 30th 2025, the Iranian regime designated our Royal Canadian Navy (https://tinyurl.com/3x4fj2zb) as “a terrorist organization” (https://tinyurl.com/ancburad; https://tinyurl.com/5x8uzw2y). This diplomatic nonsense was a delayed childish-like response to Canada’s 2024’s decision to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.

A month later, the Iranian regime is considering all European armies terrorist groups after the European Unions’ IRGC terrorist designation, following the recent and perhaps still ongoing massacre of the Iranian people (https://tinyurl.com/dhtbundw).

Iran’s defiance of Canada, Europe, and surely of the USA—which seems to be putting maximum pressure on its criminal regime—has been followed by more drama today: “Wearing Revolutionary Guard uniforms, Iranian lawmakers chant ‘Death to America! Death to Israel!’” (https://tinyurl.com/mr32avh5).

This slogan that the Iranian regime repeats as a mantra, every now and then, seems to be the ultimate insult to the Iranian people who have been the victims of a CRUEL crackdown against them, most likely “ordered by” Mr. Ali Khamenei “and carried out by his Revolutionary Guards” (https://tinyurl.com/59hfve85).

With this slogan, along with the ridiculous military costume disguise, the regime’s flying monkeys are being used to shift the world’s attention away from the CRUEL crackdown or massacre.

As for us, observers of all this drama unfolding in Iran, we have the hopeless impression that we are back, once again, to the same old hateful slogans—with death wishes—toward both the USA and Israel. Who knows? Maybe such slogans would appeal to some. However, those who are longing for a safer and brighter future in the Middle East, are sick and tired of evil yet empty slogans.