With just over a year to go before “The Roaring Twenties” begin, I’m astounded that we’ve spent the run-up to Christmas arguing over a song written in 1944.
The “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” debate, which has reared its head at...
I’m writing this column three days after an event that I had been fortunate enough to postpone for most of my life, but hoped I would be able to put off for just a few more years.
Cathy and I...
Moments before George Canyon took the stage on the third Friday evening in November, I took my seat at the far left of the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre’s Bear Head Conference Room, just outside the kitchen area.
I came perilously...
There’s something eerily familiar about the tale of Northern Pulp and the recent events
surrounding its uncertain future.
Of course, that’s because we’ve lived so much of it,
right here in the Strait of Canso.
I wasn’t expecting to find anything compelling in the latest craze to sweep the Internet, the “Three Fictional Characters” meme that encourages Twitter and Facebook participants to post images of the three imaginary icons that best represent themselves.
When it...
My year-long Canada 150 pledge to only play CDs by homegrown artists on our car stereo throughout 2017 recently reintroduced me to a pair of talented musicians and composers from my native L’Ardoise.
And even though they were featured on...
I’m not fond of hypothetical situations.
I don’t read a lot of the articles foisted on me from
the depths of social media and the internet, because they deal with
generalities, half-truths, speculation and, frequently, outlandish...
In the days leading up to Halloween, we got an ugly reminder that few things are scarier than a coward with an agenda.
Over a four-day span, packages containing pipe bombs showed up in the mailboxes, residences and workplaces of...
Cathy and I have finally seen Avengers: Endgame, wrapping up an
11-year journey of watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe unfold on screens of
all sizes.
It all started innocently enough, with our 2008 viewing
of Iron Man...
Dear Ralph:
I thought it was a good idea to reach out to you, since
you’ve been the source of so much bitterness and resentment over the past
couple of weeks from many of my fellow...