Christmas lists and tall orders

December 20, 2024 · 0 Comments

By Brock Weir If you happen to celebrate Christmas, you’ll understand that everybody has their own individual stressors that can sometimes cast a shadow over ...

Syria: Another miracle, please

By Gwynne Dyer They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts ...

Syria Gets Another Chance

By Gwynne Dyer Take a moment, first, to celebrate the fall of a regime of surpassing evil even by the demanding standards of the Middle ...

How smart are you?

By Brian Lockhart I think people in general consider themselves to be intelligent. It’s very rare to hear someone say, “I am really dumb” and ...

How hot is it?

By Brian Lockhart Have you ever listened to a weather forecast on the radio and the announcer says something like “it’s 26 degrees, but it ...

Is this who we are?

By Brock Weir Whenever we go to the polls, at least at the Federal level, we’re invariably told it is going to be one of ...

The Power of One

By John Wilson Some people, though sympathetic to our environmental challenges, hold back, feeling that their individual efforts may not matter. But one person truly ...

Fact-finding on paper trails

By Brock Weir Over the weekend, I went on a rather unusual fact-finding mission. As a long-time admirer of comedic character actor Gale Gordon, I’ve ...

Once they’ve seen Paris

By Brian Lockhart “How ya Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?” That’s an old song from the First World War. ...

Learning from the past to protect our futures

By Brock Weir It’s a very fine balancing act between looking forward and looking backward — particularly when one can invariably lead to another. On ...

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