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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »
She was the most beautiful bride in the history of the world. I’m not spinning that “inner glow” mumbo-jumbo that less fortunate fathers are forced to embrace as they walk ... Read more..Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »
I had known her by reputation only: As a founding member of the Voice of Women, an inductee of the Order of Canada, and, for more than 40 years, a ... Read more..Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
It may be a great time to call oneself a New Democrat in Canada. But if it is, the reasons seemed to elude the party’s rank and file at last ... Read more..Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Each autumn, right on cue, a virus sweeps the land afflicting Canadians with headaches, fevers, nausea, and crushing fatigue. I speak not of H1N1, but of a pathology for which, ... Read more..Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in General, Humour | No Comments »
Was it really 28 years ago when I, a skinny, pimply faced college student barely out of my teens, walked down the aisle in my father’s kilt to take the ... Read more..Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »
Clearly, Ontario MPP Lisa MacLeod and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton share little in common, apart from the fact that they are both women in politics. Naturally, then, let their ... Read more..Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
I worry whenever a clutch of citizens behaves like a self-appointed gatekeeper of good sense and common purpose in our society. The thought which invariably crosses my mind is: “Who ... Read more..Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
Things we wish we hadn’t said. . .The New York Times reported last week that former New Brunswick attorney general T.J. Burke appeared indifferent to revelations that Boston Red Sox ... Read more..Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Out of nowhere (like Batman), T.J. Burke has become a hero to all who would say the unspeakable and do the unmentionable in this politically correct, insufferably infantilized world we’ve ... Read more..Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Economy | 2 Comments »
On these soft, summer mornings, I awake to the sound of buzz-saws, not birdsongs. It’s not the sweet perfume of primrose that fills my nostrils, but the acrid odour of ... Read more..