Oct 7, 20185 min read
+10,000
Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...
Sep 1, 20183 min read
TOO POUR
Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...
Oct 20, 20173 min read
THE STERNUTATION RESPONSE
We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...
Jun 6, 20172 min read
LEGACY
On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...
Apr 15, 20174 min read
A RIDGE CALLED VIMY
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. All week CBC has been flush with related articles, reports, videos, and...
Jan 20, 20173 min read
MEASURING WITH NO STANDARD
I don't think I understand the pending march on Washington. Some have said they're marching in the name of justice and in opposition...
Nov 9, 20134 min read
FORGOTTEN
If you know me then you know that I hate Remembrance Week (as it is currently constructed and observed.) This here is my annual...
Feb 6, 20136 min read
NATURE
“I think we have to make a decision about our nature, our human nature” Carla declared. “What do you mean?” I said, figuratively holding...
Dec 8, 201221 min read
TOWARD AN OLD CONSCIOUSNESS
I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...
Apr 11, 201121 min read
WHO’S COUNTING?: MISREPRESENTATION, FORCED VOTES, and SPOILED BALLOTS
Most folks I know, many of whom tend to avoid political discussion most of the time, can get pretty passionate about elections and voting...
