Archive for April, 2006

Clowning around in Tory-town

Thursday, April 13th, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Tenuous grips on power tend to make flat-footed, ruddy-nosed clowns of minority governments, or so it now appears after more than a month of political posturing in both the New ... Read more..

Canada’s very own Hamlet contemplates his future

Thursday, April 6th, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

Not since Pierre Elliot Trudeau has the Liberal Party of Canada (or the rest of us, for that matter) witnessed the descent of a true intellectual giant into that particularly ... Read more..

Meet Joan Wulff: The First Lady of Fly Fishing

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 Posted in Environment | No Comments »

It was 11:40 a.m. on a cold, wet Tuesday in late December, and the ‘First Lady of Fly Fishing’ was in a flinty mood. Somehow, between preparing her upstate New ... Read more..