By the time you read this, somebody else may be sitting in this chair and putting together stories at this computer.
Last week, I told you why I’m leaving The Reporter in a column imaginatively titled “Why I’m leaving.” This...
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...
It’s minus-12 outside, with a wind chill factor of minus-20.
I’m pulling into the parking lot just outside Immaculata Hall, located in the building that also houses StFX’s long-running Mount Saint Bernard College, known on the Antigonish campus as “The...
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...
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...
I’m amazed by the time that has already elapsed since the provincial Education Minister announced that his government had accepted the recommendation of an independent consultant – in a report filed only 24 hours earlier - to dissolve Nova...
This would not be a typical tourist stop, even though it was happening in one of the most historically and culturally significant parts of Atlantic Canada, and arguably, the entire country.
There we were, me and Cathy and five members...
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...
As I watched the remarkable footage of Halifax municipal crews placing a black shroud over the likeness of city founder Edward Cornwallis amidst a large crowd of cheering protestors, my mind flashed to a story I had recently read...
Regular column readers (poor souls) might recall my
concern over MAD Magazine’s future.
To recap: The night before the Fourth of July (classy),
DC Entertainment sent e-mails to
MAD’s writers and artists to insist that they stop...