Religion when I was growing up in Newfoundland is certainly not part of the much talked about ‘good old days’. So much of our history was a divide along religious lines. Many won’t want to remember this because it isn’t comfortable, but I can tell you some horror stories.
Every year, in late March, the debate starts again about Confederation and whether or not Newfoundland was pushed into it.
The calendar also signals the beginning of the parallel discussion on whether Terra Nova, as we used to call ourselves, did the right thing in joining
Joe Smallwood believed in the democratic process. Well, sort of. Once following a by-election that the Liberals lost, Smallwood said to the assembled press the next day that the voters in the district had exercised their God-given right to be wrong.
That is a good introduction
I note with interest the passing of Edsel Bonnell earlier this month. He was part of the history of NTV. Edsel worked with us in the 1950s when we were still CJON. He worked in radio and was an important part of the CJON coverage of the IWA dispute
The largest part of my career in the media has been in the world of television but my earliest memories of broadcast are from radio. When King George VI died in 1952, I have a clear memory of the radio announcement. I was six years old. The news was
Vince Gallant is dead. He had a good run at it and was well into his 80s when he passed. I hadn’t seen Vince much recently. A couple of times at Radio Television News Directors meetings but that was about it. When he worked with NTV News, though, I
Last Sunday I went to Mass in Topsail as I almost always do. It is a quiet time in church and there are worse things in the world you can get up to. I like it and I actually get something from it. That is a complicated notion and
I was out on Three Island Pond a few weeks ago for a skate with my family and skating was very difficult for me. I am approaching 78 with the “best before date” looking at me – at least from a skating perspective. Anyone who says age is only
You probably watched the Buffalo Bills-Kansas City Chiefs NFL game on TV recently. How would I know that? Well, I can say that with some confidence because I do know that the TV viewing audience was about 40 million in North America. That is right. It is hard to
Occasionally, I write something that is a tad clever; or occasionally I have what I think at least is an original thought. Then I find regularly that someone else has beaten me to that notion.
Writing op-ed pieces in Newfoundland means that I have often been