Cathy and I were in Halifax for about 48 hours last week. We didn’t listen to Q104 the entire time we were there, and as a result of the issue I’m about to discuss in this column, we’ll never listen...
When some people reach their 65th birthday, they might move to a sunnier climate like Florida, either for the harsh winter months or permanently. In a similar vein (or, as its early slogan declared, “in a jugular vein”), MAD Magazine...
I’ve made a big decision to take on a leadership role in one of the most important contributors to the growth of my Christian faith over the past three decades. I’ve accepted a request to lead a Challenge weekend for...
I had some flexibility in my schedule after running a few errands on a recent weekday afternoon, so I decided to spend a little time in a place that I visit all too infrequently. Of course, it wasn’t my first...
Over the past couple of months, we’ve had plenty to say about how other people spend our money. Take the mid-April fire that caused significant damage at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, for example. The world reacted...

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The seats were rattling. We could feel the pounding rhythms through our ribcages and even our hearts. Around us, hundreds of people jumped up and down in time to the music. Most were teenagers and young...
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...
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.
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...
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...




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