Upper left, a London, Ontario man, Art Johnson, landed in Seoul late Sunday to take up his role as a Zamboni operator at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Hat’s off to you sir. To the right, Edward Cornwallis has been dead since 1776 but they’re still trying to kill him in Halifax. His statue was removed over the weekend by the City he founded because he once put a bounty on certain indigenous persons who were fighting the creation of Halifax. Below that is violinist Andrew Forde. He will perform The Ideas of North at Koerner Hall in Toronto with his band The Ghost Tapes on February 9 as part of Black History Month. At bottom left, Germany remains without an effective government four months after the general election. Angela Merkel can’t get a coalition going with the Social Democrats. And then that pleasant-looking young man in his high school photo from Fenelon Falls Secondary is accused serial killer Bruce McArthur. Equally unsettling, the young life of Morgan Geyser. She has been sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution at the age of 15 for the appalling attack she and a friend committed on a classmate. It was inspired by a fictional Internet bogeyman named Slenderman. Such bunk. Finally, Tom Brady’s Hail Mary attempt to win the Super Bowl failed. The final was 41-33 Eagles.
