I never thought I’d see the day when even one person would become so fed up with – or just plain terrified by – their political choices that they’d turn to a comedy show for some semblance of democracy...
Number of days into 2019 that SNC-Lavalin scandal broke,
following story in The Globe and Mail: 38
Number of years prior to that date that SNC-Lavalin was charged with
corruption and fraud over its business dealings...
I’m writing this column not long after Cathy wrapped up the longest hospital stay either of us has had in our nearly 10-year marriage, and one of the longest either of us has experienced in our entire lives.
But we...
As we move beyond Christmas and start to look ahead to
the new decade, I find myself winding the clock backwards, to when I was Greta
Thunberg’s age.
The climate-change activist, recently named as TIME Magazine’s...
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...
A disclaimer: I have never read Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series, nor have I seen the Charlottetown festival’s long-running musical version.
Now that some of you have already begun the arrangements for my deportation from Canada (or...
Sometimes I won’t have anything
especially profound or enlightening to say in this column. (I can hear you now:
“Only sometimes?”)
Occasionally, I’ll have a week that was
so full of travels, adventures, and mid-summer memories that...
Under a Facebook post bemoaning president-elect Donald Trump’s lack of political experience – and the positives and negatives associated with limited exposure to Washington, D.C. – I spotted this comment:
“We did the same thing last year in Canada! And...
With Hollywood, TV networks and streaming services
jamming our screens with holiday content, it’s getting harder every year to
choose the right Christmas favourites to supplement other December activities
like shopping, taking the kids to see Santa, or sweeping up...
I discovered MAD Magazine in the early ‘80s, nearly three decades into its
existence.
At the time, the magazine section at
the Port Hawkesbury Sobeys location was kitty-corner to the bakery section,
so I still recall the...