It’s a Wrap
Christmas isn’t quite over yet – here’s Sean Quigley from Winnipeg, drumming and singing his heart out in this video that went viral last Christmas:
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God Bless Us, Everyone
Bill Maher’s 2001 Christmas message is just as timely and wise now as it was 11 years ago. For the second year in a row, I will allow Maher, an…
Putting Christ back in Christmas: maybe Christians themselves need to ‘press reset’
Jesus, centre, separates the sheep from the goats. Don’t ask what happens to the goats. Below: St. Paul and modern Evangelical favourite Ayn Rand. Today is Christmas, and thus an…
Christmas Wish
Dear Santa: While you’re up on the roof and whatnot (incidentally, you want to make sure you hit the southeast chimney; the other two are just for show), would you…
Happy holidays from Soviet Russia (and us!)
In the spirit of the holidays, we’d like to share with you this lovely collection of Soviet greeting cards. Enjoy! (There’s more where that come from if you check out…
Best Wishes
To all fellow bloggers and visitors of my blog.
How the Grinch Got Christmas
A few weeks ago, Nicholas came home to help decorate our Christmas tree. Nick is never that interested in the ‘girlie’ stuff of decorating, but he was only slightly grinch-like…
Merry Christmas
This holiday season, needs no reason to offer a stranger a happy greeting, where both me writing and you reading is like the coincidence of us meeting, walking past each…
#AblegCares
So, myself, Joey Oberhoffner, Derrick Jacobson (@AlbertaAltruist), Marc Doll (@DollHouseYYC), and Stephen Anderson (@StephenDAnderso) got together to eat tacos. For charity. For every taco eaten we’d get our pledges to…
A Council Christmas Carol – part 1
STAVE ONE. It was one of those long winter days. I was back in town late, that Thursday, well after dark, driving down the main street watching the heavy snow…
Happy Holidays: Oil To The World & All That
The U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its updated Arctic Report card earlier this week. Like many other recent reports about the condition of the north, the canary…
This Christmas, We are Thankful for Tyze
This Christmas, our family is grateful for Tyze Personal Networks. For those new to my blog, I am the mother of a young man with severe disabilities who is adored…
An Atheist Celebrates a Secular Christmas in a Multicultural Canada
So why would a non-Christian celebrate Christmas. Well first of all from a religious point of view Jesus Christ is not just the Christian Messiah but also considered to be…
So, uh, the President of TB…
… doesn’t have anything better to do than to declare war on Santa-haters? Really, Uncle Tony? Really? The Government of Canada has no guidelines that restrict federal employees from putting…
Bollocks to Christmas! I have a love-hate relationship with…
Bollocks to Christmas! I have a love-hate relationship with Christmas. What I love: *Getting a few days off work. *Having a somewhat lighter workload on the days surrounding the holidays.…
The greatest Christmas movie miracle of all time
This originally appeared as a column in the December 22 print and online editions of the North Bay / Nippissing News, the weekly newspaper I’ve been writing for recently. I’ve…
Deck The Jails With Wall Street Bankers: The 99% Choir Goes Christmas Caroling
This youtube gem came my way via MyFireDogLake.com, and I knew I had to share it. Here’s the 99% Choir, made up of members from The Backbone Campaign, Washington Community…
Christmas Time This Year – Happy holidays from us and Ry Cooder
On this Christmas Day, we’d like to wish you and those you love a most wonderful holiday season. And for those with gifts left to give (be you Orthodox Christian,…