Wandering further afield, I went trainspotting with youngest son on October 12. This time, we went to Coteau, Quebec, and De Beaujeu, Quebec to do some trainspotting. If you wonder why I use the British […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is scrapping photo radar. Well, good riddance! I’m glad all the serious problems in our province have been solved, that the premier can now devote his time to trivial issues like […]
Readers can file this column under the category of curmudgeonly late 40-something-year-old complaints, but I’ve let this go too long without saying – when did customers no longer matter to businesses? A little over a […]
Knowing your own worth, whether that is in the workplace or in the greater world, is often difficult to figure out – unless you’re an elected politician. In that case, it’s easy – you’re worth […]
Echoing a time long ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney has lamented that Canada used to build big things. “We used to build big things in this country, and we used to build them quickly. It’s […]
Wit and witticism are part of the standard fare for most writers. There isn’t a writer who I know of who turns down a catch phrase, or turns a blind eye to a funny quip. […]
After years of resisting the herd mentality, stubbornly digging my heels in, and sticking with what I know, I made the switch. I am now an iPhone user. The case for switching has made sense […]
AI-generated cartoon A fire in the middle of the night consumed a stone house near where I live recently. The house was empty and there were no injuries. That is where I thought the story […]
Canada is one of only two countries in the world to have imposed reciprocal or counter-tariffs on American products, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods six months ago. It was […]
The headline of this column is not a bunch of random letters typed on the keyboard by a two-year-old. Rather it is a very real condition. Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13. It […]
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