This week: A story 27 years in the making.
It started as my story, and it all happened in the
summer of 1992, when I was a university student working at a tiny tourist
bureau next...
Poor Andrew Scheer.
He was poised to be Prime Minister only two years after
winning the federal Conservative leadership, as the Trudeau Liberal brand went
south once the SNC-Lavalin scandal
broke in February.
Then...
Dear Santa:
I’m sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve written. I think
I was 11 the last time I wrote to you. That’s a shame in and of itself,
especially since you were so diligent in...
He knew he had to do it.
He and his wife had been struggling with the flu since the day after Boxing Day, leaving them both unable to give the driveway, the steps and the back deck the attention they...
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...
Cathy and I have enjoyed CBC-TV’s comedy-in-a-small-town series Still Standing for quite awhile now, but we’ve never looked forward to an episode quite as much as the late-November edition saluting the community of Canso.
That’s partly because each of us...
I’m shifting to a sports theme in this week’s column,
since so many hockey happenings are capturing my attention these days.
Mind you, it isn’t always easy to pick a team to
support. Take the recent...
On the first Sunday morning in April, I found out that Jean McNamara had passed away the previous day. (Among other things, this means God shared her with us for precisely 72 years and one day.)
Roughly six hours later,...
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....
I’m writing this column not long after Cathy wrapped up the longest hospital stay either of us has had in our nearly 10-year marriage, and one of the longest either of us has experienced in our entire lives.
But we...