As always, when beginning a column about our public broadcaster, I’ll point out that I’m a freelance contributor to the Cape Breton edition of CBC Radio One’s Information Morning program.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I’d...
Ahem: Dear Your Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth The
Second of the House of Windsor…
Oh, forget it. We both know that I’m not fond of that
pompous nonsense. Let me try again.
Dear...
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...
I was about two months into my first regular journalism job, as the afternoon news anchor for CIGO AM Radio.
With my five o’clock newscast just a few minutes away, I was delivering a handful of sound clips and pre-packaged...
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...
“Good afternoon. You’re watching the North American Headline network, or NAH for short. I’m Janine Generic-Anchorperson, and this is my colleague Winston Squarejaw. Winston?”
“Thank you, Janine. Today, as we endeavour to bring you explosive testimony from both sides of...
Many of you might not know that this column is written five days – sometimes six – before it appears in The Reporter.
As a result, I need to choose a topic that will still capture your minds and hearts...
As some of you might already know, I entered a contest this fall.
I didn’t win the contest. I didn’t even make it to the finals.
So why would I spend the next 750 words writing about a contest that I...
I have turned down a lot of chocolate over the past 25 years.
You see, it was a quarter-century ago that my family doctor and I jointly figured out that my skin couldn’t handle even trace amounts of the key...
I’m addressing this column to those of you who have lived in Port Hawkesbury, and the general Strait area, longer than the past decade.
It’s surprising that so many of us still don’t recognize that this region has a significant...