Nearly two weeks after we lost him, I find myself feeling a delayed wistfulness about the recent passing of Wally Ellison.
I’m writing this column three days after I attended Wally’s funeral in West Bay Road. I was planning to...
In 2002, a few weeks after seeing Spider-Man’s first
big-screen outing, I found myself in a local Wal-Mart’s
toy section.
As I beheld a towering display of toys and merchandise
devoted to the film version of my...
By the time you read this, somebody else may be sitting in this chair and putting together stories at this computer.
Last week, I told you why I’m leaving The Reporter in a column imaginatively titled “Why I’m leaving.” This...
I was struck silent by the inscription on the gravestone that sat just a few feet in front of me on this quiet Friday morning in northern France.
In a sense, that shouldn’t be surprising. This was my first visit...
As we grapple with the regional divisions and partisan
reactions that have come out of last month’s election campaign, I’m reminded of
a simpler time.
It was a time before smartphones, social media,
texting, DVDs, PVRs, reality...
“Captain’s Bigly Log, Stardate…uh…Stardate, Sometime-In-The-Summer, 2018: Now that we have launched my most awesome and fantastic United States Space Force, we have wiped out all threats to our planet. Well, not the whole planet, but the best part, the...
At this point of the year, many of us are hitting the road and getting a better, more intimate look at Cape Breton Island than we typically achieve during the wicked winter weather (or even this year’s late-spring, early-summer...
It’s minus-12 outside, with a wind chill factor of minus-20.
I’m pulling into the parking lot just outside Immaculata Hall, located in the building that also houses StFX’s long-running Mount Saint Bernard College, known on the Antigonish campus as “The...
“Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our weekly government caucus meeting. You might recall that we had a little surprise last week, when a couple of our MPs dressed up as those loveable old balcony hecklers from The Muppet...
Due to our deadlines, I won’t be able to comment on this week’s provincial election results until the next time I tiptoe into this space.
So, for now, I’ll offer a few random thoughts on a more civilized sport: Hockey....