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The past couple of weeks has been a rather appalling spectacle in the Canadian House of Commons. Whether we are talking about the case of Navdeep Bains and Mr. Harper’s attempted smear, or the name calling surrounding various governments’ handlin…
I take my title today from a common exhortation upon the death of a monarch in a hereditary monarchy. It is a saying whose meaning is two-fold … it both speaks to the passing of an old leader, but also to the continuity of the institution of mo…
Ian Robinson is a columnist for the Calgary Sun, and today he weighed in on his Remembrance Day yesterday, expressing his gratitude that he didn’t run into anyone wearing a white poppy. While I agree in general with his opinion that selling or we…
As a final follow up on the story of the Pasternak twins from Winnipeg, the girls received news this week that the were cut from the team. To refresh the stories I’ve blogged about previously, this past June Amy and Jesse Pasternak have spent the …
I am a voracious reader of newspapers. I read at least 2 physical papers a day … the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Sun (well, this is assuming I am at home and not travelling) … plus several others on-line on the average day. One of the main reasons I read so many different […]
UPDATE: Winnipeg Girls win right to try out on boys hockey team …
CANOE — CNEWS - Canada: Twin Winnipeg girls fight for right to play on boys high school hockey team
This is an interesting story from Manitoba today. The central i…
9 Chickweed Lane
Over the past few years, this has developed into one of my favorite comic strips. From the perspective of a single, middle-aged guy with no kids, the choice of a strip whose main characters are a single, university professor mother raising a ballerina daughter might seem a bit odd, a bit […]
TorontoSun.com - Eric Margolis - Final act in the death of Yugoslavia
As people who know me personally know, I am a voracious newspaper reader. I read at least 2 newspapers on most days … The Globe and Mail, and the Calgary Sun. One of the reasons I love the Sun is its easy […]
winnipegsun.com - Charles Adler - Code critics served up humble pie
This column appeared in yesterday's Sun newspapers, and it highlights one of the arguments about the da Vinci Code, and Jesus in general from 'mainstream' Christians, that has always mystified me. Adler details very articulately the traditional Christian view of Jesus as pure and non-sinner […]
There’s a columnist in the Calgary Sun that I read all the time, but rarely comment on. He tends to write on issues that don’t fire me up with passion, but in some ways, its his calm, logical, matter-of-fact writing style that makes him easier to…
