Love and Memory at the Lake
My husband Jim and I met and married ‘up at the lake’ as we call our summer place in the Quebec Laurentians. Jim’s parents met and married at the lake…
My husband Jim and I met and married ‘up at the lake’ as we call our summer place in the Quebec Laurentians. Jim’s parents met and married at the lake…
At yesterday’s Saskatchewan Roughrider game, Premier Wall announced provincial funding for a new stadium: an $80-million grant and a $100-million loan to be repaid over time through a surcharge on…
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Will Hutton discusses how the increasing gaps in economic equality are leading to radical differences in opportunity – with the U.S./U.K. push toward…
There's not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
There’s not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
There's not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
That sounds like hyperbole. It’s not. The Harper government is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of the terminally ill to physician-assisted suicide. Harper wants to restore…
Farmers in far more than half of the United States are now busily filling out forms for emergency drought relief. This year’s corn crop is said to be particularly devastated,…
Collect enough pieces of information and they eventually fit together into a meaningful pattern. But rarely do enough of them appear in one newspaper on one day to create an…
During the heated public debates on the omnibus crime Bill C-10, Canadian progressives argued that the Harper Government’s controversial legislation was the beginning of the privatization of Canada’s prison system.…
It’s time to hit the “reset” button on Canada’s military, or at least its top ranks. That much was plain from reading the jingoistic remarks of General Walt Natynczyk from…
For many years I have argued that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were betrayed by dismal political and military leadership in Ottawa and a mass media too inept to recognize the…
The door is indeed open for change, but PEI is without a politician with balls/ovaries big enough to cross the threshold. Today on CBC Sunday Edition there was a great…
The Conservative party again proves itself to be the party that enacts policy without proper research. New to this long list is Vic Toews statements about double bunking. With Billions…
If I could write Obama’s speeches so as to best influence the national conversation in a positive way, they would have simply no mention of religion. Our society is best…
Given Calgary’s recent designation as the “greatest city in Canada” and the entire province enjoying sainthood status under the current Prime Minister, it is with some trepidation that I draw…
These have been appearing everywhere in my end of the city. I mean everywhere, not just on the Scarborough side of Vic Park. When my wife sees him she’ll shit…
Theresa Lubowitz on the Death of Substantive Policy Canada is teetering dangerously close to the death of substantive policy as we know it, with the rise of a populist Conservative…
TweetI will be spending the next few weeks traveling through Germany and the Czech Republic. Regular posts will resume upon my return in August.
An interesting debate about Higgs boson (God Particle) and religion. FILE – In this March 30, 2010 file photo a scientist looks at the pictures of the first collisions at…