Midway through last week’s Celtic Colours schedule, a viral video from the Celtic Heart of North America program summed up the effect the festival has across Cape Breton.
The carefully-staged clip features Mairi Rankin and Wendy MacIsaac playing fiddle tunes...
While our neighbours to the south struggle with the latest debate over the right to bear arms, a former Canadian Prime Minister thought the time was right to launch a conversation over the right to bare arms.
Kim Campbell, who...
Even if you’ve visited a community many times over the
years, that special little nook will always find a creative way to surprise
you.
And that’s how a recent trip to the Sunrise Trail
greeted me and...
With this year’s Academy Award broadcast happening two
weeks earlier than usual, you could be forgiven for not having a clue who just
walked by the red-carpet paparazzi or why that movie with the strange title
just won seven Oscars.
When I started last week’s column, I had a feeling that
I’d require a little more space and time to fit in all my thoughts about
several leagues’ worth of play-off hockey happenings, and I was right.
I never served in the military; I’ve never even put on a uniform.
My longest exposure to any military organization was a single evening of test-driving the L’Ardoise Army Cadet Corps during my first month in the eighth grade. (It...
With Hollywood, TV networks and streaming services
jamming our screens with holiday content, it’s getting harder every year to
choose the right Christmas favourites to supplement other December activities
like shopping, taking the kids to see Santa, or sweeping up...
I discovered MAD Magazine in the early ‘80s, nearly three decades into its
existence.
At the time, the magazine section at
the Port Hawkesbury Sobeys location was kitty-corner to the bakery section,
so I still recall the...
I’m finding myself oddly nostalgic these days – but not for the usual reasons.
It’s not nostalgia for my childhood or young-adult years, or pop culture of days gone by. Thanks to YouTube and used-vinyl-album stores, I can wind the...
As part of my long-term plan to get myself into some
semblance of good physical shape, I recently got myself a new physical trainer.
Well, not exactly; I have neither the financial
resources, the patience, nor...