Steve Neary was the former leader of the Liberal Party and best known for his work in what was, at the time, Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. He told me many years ago that in politics timing was EVERYTHING. He said it had to do with when to go to
I am more than a little conflicted about writing about the horrible forest fires that happened in our province this summer. There is a kind of survivor’s guilt in it all. We were evacuated because of the fire near Three Island
The truest thing I can tell you about news is something you may not have thought about. If you are of the opinion that news is largely about happy events and achievements of various kinds, you are very wrong. I may have mentioned this before, or maybe I just
Television came to Newfoundland in September of 1955. Everyone in our school in St. John’s was talking about it. It changed everything. My introduction to television in our west end home would come later for me because we didn’t have a television for the same reason we didn’t have
There was a piece in the news recently on what was an escorted tour of the new urgent care centre down in the old Costco building in the east end of St. John’s. I usually don’t pay attention to media events like this one but I did because I
It was hot for a couple of days last week in St. John’s. It was a real heat of almost 30 degrees. At least we call it hot because we just aren’t used to it. We complain all winter here on the east coast of the island of Newfoundland
He had the wonderful nickname of Teddy Ballgame, and he was the greatest hitter of the modern era in Major League Baseball. Who says so? I do. He was Ted Williams.
He was a 19-time all star, a two-time winner of the American League MVP, a
I was at Memorial University a couple of weeks ago for an event absolutely unrelated to that of which I write about today. I saw at Memorial at that time what is left of Burton’s Pond. That pond is one of the places where I learned to skate when
When I was younger there was a much tougher religious regimen within the Catholic church. The season of Lent today in this year of Our Lord 2025 is still the runup to Easter Sunday, but it is simply not as demanding as it used to be. Fasting and abstention
I moved out of the centre of the City St. John’s many years ago. I loved the city, and I still do but it was just time to go. Now I live in the country, well sort of. The area where I grew up in the inner city is