Royal Pain:

We've been paying so much attention to the strange goings-on re: media south of the border, we've missed what our own esteemed purveyors of dire events here in Canada have been up to lately.

The picture is not inspiring. Just when Prince Charles and Camilla were invited to do the tour during Canada's 150th, some genius editor in the electronic media decides to release material on Princess Diana dating back to when William and Harry were cute little guys basking in mommy's attentions.

Isn't that a little like picking on slow -healing scabs? Actually, a lot like that.

Some sphincter in the media has it in for not only Charles and Camilla, but is insensitive to William and Harry's memories of their mother at the same time.

It's not their fault they were born into goldfish-bowl existence where they have to smile on cue, wave, attend events they can't possibly care about, while pretending that everything's their concern and just dandy.

The media release on that occasion was a stupid thing to do. It was insensitive to people who have no choice being who they are.

Whoever is responsible should be invited to look for a job that requires no critical judgement.

Hey, Stephen:

Latest disaster scenario attributed to top cosmologist Stephen Hawking is to the effect that Donald Trump's moves to take America off the environmental disaster train known as the Paris Accord will result in a complete planetary meltdown. 

It's a global disaster in the making, according to the media, and will create on our planet the hell-like conditions thought to exist on Venus.

Now the environmental alarmists are using Hawking's concerns with planet Earth's health to further discredit the US president's questions re the prevailing political environmental propaganda.

Someone should warn Prof. Hawking that talking to journalists with a leftward list in their political postures is risky. A few weeks ago they had him issue dire warnings of malicious ETs lurking out there in the cosmos, ready to pounce.

Scientific concerns and media hype are a poor mix. They can make perfectly logical concerns look silly.

Hey, Donald:

All of us who think you have the right stuff to set America back on track are waiting for you to begin by ignoring all those grade school mentalities in the Washington and New York media and entertainment world and continue doing what needs to be done.

When it comes to mud-slinging, you can't win. That's their trade, not yours. They're better at it than you are, so ignore them and walk away.

Engaging in insults and counter-insults only validates their actions, and diminishes those of the President of the United States.