Guest post: The miracle of life – Our soils
My friend from Daysland, AB, retired farmer Ken Eshpeter, is always pondering the future of agriculture and the environment, so I welcomed him to share some of his poetry here.
Pachelbel, the CBC, and the liberal arts: A surprising connection
Notwithstanding pre-existing personal bias and a considerable amount of immaturity, I was able to hear Pachelbel’s Canon and listen to the CBC news right afterward with an entirely different mindset.
My most memorable undergraduate rectal-cranial inversion
I was going through some of the papers I’d written in university and came across one I’d done in a senior Canadian history class...
How the River became a magnet for Ukrainian settlement after February 2022
Prior to February 2022, there was only a handful of people of known Ukrainian heritage living in the Miramichi area. Now, there are over 150...
Guest post: How About Service Life
My father-in-law, Howard McDowell, had a long and fulfilling career in the Canadian Forces (Air Force) and, toward the end of his tenure, penned an article on what he calls "Service Life".
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine (Part 5): Positives?
Despite the horrors with which the world has become familiar, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022 has led to five positive outcomes, both globally and locally.
Politics in decline: Stoop as low as you want, as long as you have a “good reason”
As the snake said when he eventually sank his fangs into the woman who had befriended him, “You knew what I was when you took me in.”
Peter Lougheed and me
He was a giant in more ways than a young university student in the early 1980s, who grew up elsewhere, could possibly realize, but in ways that have endured.
Bus driving adventures
Everyone has “one of those days” at work from time to time and driving a motorcoach with more than 50 seats can present its own set of challenges in that regard.
Life in Ireland: Observations by a Canadian visitor
Last week, Michele and I had the great good fortune of visiting the republic of Ireland for the first time....In no particular order (and sometimes with tongue in cheek), here are some of the things I noticed in our travels.