As a child and a teenager growing up in L’Ardoise, I got much of my early political education on Sunday mornings at my grandparents’ house, when my family would get together after Mass and hash out the issues of...
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...
Cathy and I just hit a milestone: January marked five years since we decided to buy a house in Port Hawkesbury.
Our first five-and-a-half years of marriage saw us renting an apartment in the town, but we wanted to put...
When The
Tragically Hip’s frontman Gord Downie lost his cancer battle two
years ago, it was hard to ignore the accompanying national outpouring of grief.
And yet, as I reflect on last week’s passing of John
Mann,...
There were two questions that I heard on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis when I worked at the tourist bureau in St. Peter’s as a teenager during the summer of 1992.
They were: “Where’s the St. Peter’s Canal?” And: “Are...
My new friend Andy seemed to need a little convincing.
This was his first time at Swim The Canal, after all. He was visiting his parents in Richmond County, with his wife and eight-year-old son from the Dusseldorf-Cologne area of...
Bear with me this week, friends, because I’m going to take a bit of a leap and draw a parallel between two very different people that we lost this fall – a comic-book mogul who enjoyed a full life...
For those of us that enjoy comic art,
especially political satire, this summer has gotten off to a lousy start.
In late June, we learned that Brunswick News Incorporated dropped veteran political cartoonist Michael de
Adder...
“Captain’s Bigly Log, Stardate…uh…Stardate, Sometime-In-The-Summer, 2018: Now that we have launched my most awesome and fantastic United States Space Force, we have wiped out all threats to our planet. Well, not the whole planet, but the best part, the...
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...