La tempête de fin octobre
They sit in their vehicles behind the Centre communautaire, high-beam headlights illuminating but a sliver of the temperamental Strait
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 and the liberal arts
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.
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.