I am in Ottawa. It always makes me feel very “Canadian” when I come here. We are surely one of the world’s great democracies and the envy of many nations. It’s a large mistake to think that democracy is where all humans are headed and is the natural order that
There is something about dining with someone that is special. It’s a “breaking of bread” and there is something about it almost spiritual. It’s a break from the world where important conversation often takes place.
In a column a few years ago I wrote about dining with three different people
In the narrow sense of the word the Liberals won the recent election. Why? Because they have more seats than any other party. That’s how the score is kept in politics. They were the winners. There is no constitutional crisis no matter what PC leader Ches Crosbie says.
The Liberals
The climate has changed. You don’t need to be Nostradamus to predict that this will continue because humans are so invasive. When I was growing up everything in terms of garbage outside of major centres was taken down to “the landwash.”
We thought the ocean could handle anything. Similarly, we
I have deliberately held off on talking about the legalization of weed. It all needed time to sink in on people and time for some of the wrinkles to get ironed out.
I am a child of the ’60s and I know a lot about marijuana. I even remember the
It’s 7:00 in the morning and it is freezing cold. The calendar says it is nearly May but there could be flurries today. Last night there was freezing rain and lots of it. Silver thaw we used to call it.
In 1959 silver thaw knocked the lights out for several
It is election time. Careers will be made and unmade in May. Hearts will soar and other hearts will be broken. I ran in a provincial election a long time ago. I learned much. My position today is that it is important to run. It is not important to win.
There is a kind of a funny feeling in writing about the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. It is so magnificent and I am ordinary. It humbles me. I have been there several times, most recently a few summers ago. More about that particular memory in a moment.
How did he
There was a time in Newfoundland when I was growing up that if you saw a black person on the street you figured immediately they worked at Memorial University. There just weren’t very many people ‘of colour’ in Newfoundland except at MUN.
An exception in my small word was a
Tell me this isn’t so. Consideration is being given to have dogs run free off leash on a part of the Three Pond Barrens. There is a group called the Coalition for Off-Leash Animals and they met with Pippy Park officials to discuss that notion.
Well colour me; OPPOSED. First
The first book I encountered at university was a slender volume called Reading English by George Story and E.R. Seary. It explained how a student reads for a degree and how important it is to read critically and not believe everything just because it is on paper. Smallwood suffered from
Somewhere in the chic bistros of St. John’s tonight there are probably still people arguing that we were ‘railroaded’ into Confederation and that somehow voting to join Canada was something other than the will of the people. That is an idea that didn’t emerge until well into our marriage with