When I reflect on memories of our cat Sadie that
predate her departure from this world last Thursday afternoon, her purr will
always come back to me.
It often reached incredible volumes – Cathy described it
as...
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...
On the surface, a change to one line in our national anthem might not seem to have that much in common with recent revisions to the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program.
And yet, as both stories dominated the headlines last...
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...
Dear Mr. Harper:
Oh, wait, I’m sorry. You’re not Prime Minister anymore, so there’s no need to persist with these needless formalities. Let’s try again. Pretend you’re wearing a cardigan by the fireside for one of your “folksy” campaign commercials,...
Congratulations, Canada! You did it! You not only survived Legalization Day, you’ve also done your part to bring down the national and provincial debt!
And how did we do it, you ask? By purchasing so much recreational cannabis in a...
I went back to L’Ardoise this weekend to say my final “Au revoir” to someone that I mistakenly assumed would be around forever, during the 34 years that I was lucky enough to know her.
My relationship with Jane Martell,...
We thought we had it figured out.
We, the white Canadians, were finally ready to roll up
our sleeves and right the wrongs carried out by our ancestors for the previous
500 years. We were going...
“Good morning, you must be my next patient.”
“Doc, don’t you recognize me?”
“Should I? Wait a minute. That accent – thick Acadian one minute, the Queen’s English the next. Is that really you, New Brunswick?”
“Yeah, it’s me, Doc. You’ve got...
I was fortunate enough to get a combined month’s worth of time off this summer, and it’s allowed Cathy and me to re-acquaint ourselves with some of our favourite parts of Nova Scotia.
This has rarely been more pronounced than...