This is an op/ed piece that wouldn’t have been written a year ago. You would have thought me quite mad to have even opened the subject. I am not the first to do this but the question has already been raised about what will happen if Donald Trump refuses to
I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about the future. If my ‘best before date’ was different perhaps I would because there are dark clouds on our horizon. Threats to our ravaged environment are obvious, as are political and social threats in a world rapidly dividing into an ‘us
Somebody in some cubicle in a federal government department had the whacko idea of building a fence on Signal Hill and blocking the view of part of the St. John’s Harbour.
Who knows what lies in the hearts of government’s minions at all levels? Perhaps it was meant to drive
My mom used to use the lovely expression “too foolish to talk about”. Sometimes in the middle of expressing opinions about what radio commentator John Nesbitt used to call “the passing parade” something jumps out at me that needs to be referenced as more than a difference of opinion. Something
Ernest Hemingway said that “all stories end in death and he is no true storyteller who would keep that from you.” So it is I had to come to terms with putting our aged cat Boots “to sleep.” About a quarter of the world’s cats are called Boots. Another quarter
It’s déjà vu all over again as Yogi Berra used to say. Here I am hunched over a keyboard in the middle of the night venting about the Screech-in ceremony although to me ‘ceremony’ is too strong a word.
I am glad that plans for the silly idea of a
I don’t think I’ll ever understand what the world is about. Somebody I know well died last week. Still the Raptors were on and so was the Blues-Bruins series. I had to watch. I think.
Intellectually there seems something “off” about just going on with the world but the world
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