It was with a great sigh of relief that I watched Premier Tony Wakeham announce there would not be a referendum on the newly-minted memorandum with Quebec on Labrador power development. I am all for democracy and all for government keeping election promises but that notion, driven by common
My life has been absolutely blessed with reading. I talk often about the fact that I could read before I even started school. I brag about that actually. My parents and grandfather taught me to read. Those were the days of the 1950’s; when school started with Grade 1.
I watched the World Cup this summer with a vengeance. Circumstance caught me this year with time on my hands and a television package that gave me all the games everywhere. Canadians all watched and we certainly did get our money’s worth. I want to share a few observations
The problem with the price of gas is that it changes everything. It always has.
A couple of things need to be said about gasoline prices, and I guess it falls under that old expression – “I have some good news and some bad news. Which do
We had a little bit of rain last week. It was enough to freshen things up in my corner of the world. Late one night I was walking up through the back garden in the dark. It was what I call “a turn of the property’’ and I do
Not all things in the world of news work out for you. Here are two examples that started with good intentions but turned ugly. One involved me and one did not.
First my tale. In September of 1977, the Portuguese trawler Vasco d’Oray caught fire and burned in
Another page dropped off the calendar for me recently. That is not a dreadful thing because it happens to all of us all the time. It is a progression. I just turned 80 a while ago and I really do not know how I did it. Certainly, it was
There were two quite different but significant events I attended last week but there was a link. The first event was a graduation concert for my grandchild. He was finishing kindergarten. When I started school at St. Bon’s many years ago there was no kindergarten. It had not been
A story from the distant past for your consideration today. The news side of broadcasting was not my only home in on-air television work. While news is where I have happily lived for most of career, there was an earlier part of broadcasting life where news was interrupted by
Last week over a lovely late -night whiskey I looked at my Facebook page. I never did spend a lot of time there on-line because I understand the limitations of it all. On occasion I have posted things I think the world might want to see and