Archive for December, 2006
Snerby Buckskin et al
Home for the holidays and over the last few days, I have been scanning the family archive of pictures. I came across a fascinating 1942 class photograph taken outside the Saskedge School, a one room schoolhouse north of a town named Leader in south eastern Saskatchewan near the Alberta border. At that time, the wooden […]
No more Mr. Nice Guy
The federal government’s hard line on human rights in China incites pro-democracy friends and business foes
Call it Ottawa’s unofficial China Day. On Nov. 21, Beijing’s envoy, Lu Shumin, spoke before a group of 500 business leaders at the Canadian Club, asking Canada to show respect and not “point fingers” at the state of human rights […]
I’m not angry anymore
The other night I was at a dinner party when the topic at the table turned to unhealthy relationships and since one of the other guests was a landlord with a few properties in town, the conversation momentarily turned to single mothers since he had quite a few tenants who were mothers and single. Specifically, […]
Almost famous
I see Jermoe has plastered my picture on his site. Uh, thanks. Cripes! (Can’t say he didn’t warn me because he did.) I had hoped to have more done here, rearranging the back end of my old site and bringing it up to this here blog. I’ll get to that shortly.
Taking the hit
The Tories have either made the hard but right decision, or they have stupidly angered their core supporters
Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, it is said. But perhaps a third should be added: politicians’ broken promises. Because, after all, bad things come in threes. When the federal Conservatives went back on […]
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