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...
“Gee, Ariel, you look so sad.”
“I’m sorry, Flounder. I just don’t understand why
nobody likes me anymore.”
“That’s not true. I like you, Ariel. And Sebastian over
here is crazy about you....
By now, even if you’re not a sports fan, you’ve heard the tragic story of the Humboldt Broncos.
You’re probably aware of the April 6 accident in northern Saskatchewan that took 16 lives and injured another 13 passengers, many of...
I’ve come to love and appreciate candles much more in
my adult life than I did in my childhood and adolescence.
Far from being the birthday-cake wish-granters or
church-service adornments of my younger years, I’ve found...
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Lord Almighty, I thank You for always being present to hear my prayers and problems, whether they may be the heaviest burdens or merely the day-to-day issues...
I went back to L’Ardoise this weekend to say my final “Au revoir” to someone that I mistakenly assumed would be around forever, during the 34 years that I was lucky enough to know her.
My relationship with Jane Martell,...
It’s an old cliché: “A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met.”
Well, it WAS an old cliché, anyway – before Cathy and I made our first trip to St. John’s.
It was already a special occasion because neither of us...
Now that the awards season is winding down and everybody actually received the correct envelope, you might be finding it difficult to sift through the wave of post-Oscar blockbusters and Academy Award winners and losers to figure out how...
Regular column readers (poor souls) might recall my
concern over MAD Magazine’s future.
To recap: The night before the Fourth of July (classy),
DC Entertainment sent e-mails to
MAD’s writers and artists to insist that they stop...
Number of days into 2019 that SNC-Lavalin scandal broke,
following story in The Globe and Mail: 38
Number of years prior to that date that SNC-Lavalin was charged with
corruption and fraud over its business dealings...