1985: My introduction to Tom Petty comes from, of all people, “Weird Al” Yankovic, whose first album includes a spoof of Petty’s duet with Stevie Nicks, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” As my 13-year-old ears take in the accordion-heavy...
I thought we were far enough into the winter that this wouldn’t be a problem, but sadly, it appears that the Christmas toys found under several trees across the province are as defective as their poorly-built predecessors.
So I have...
So we got a visit from Brian Mulroney last week.
That kind of a sentence carries a vastly different flavour than it did only 25 years ago, when Bruce MacKinnon summed up a Prime Ministerial arrival in Nova Scotia with...
I’ve chosen some heavy issues to fill this column space
in recent weeks, but now I’ve got a real meaty topic for you: The ownership of
our favourite comic-book superheroes.
Rumours are running rampant that Marvel...
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...
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 never thought I’d see the day when the federal party established to break up Canada was finally on the verge of breaking up itself.
For that matter, I always figured that if I lived long enough to see the...
Since
last week’s column saw me sharing some favourite moments from a crazy stretch
in the summer of 2019, I figure that’s a good theme to revisit for one more
week.
The first
Friday in August saw a...
If you read last week’s column, you might remember that I just made my first visit to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Well, to be more accurate, I made my first two visits to Newfoundland and Labrador. They just happened to occur...
Given the uproar that followed NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s recent announcement that the NHL wouldn’t make any concessions to allow its players to participate in next year’s Winter Olympics, you might have assumed that the game as we know...