Retired Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire continues to be haunted by what he witnessed and went through in the horrific genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In a book to be released this fall: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda he tells of his time as head of the UN Assistance Mission [...]

Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
Do not protect [...]

There is a guy parked in the alley behind my place.
Nice car. Very clean.
He is just sitting there. Occasionally he touches his right ear. He has a laptop. And occasionally it looks like he is talking to himself.
He’s working. I don’t know if he is public or private.
My guess? Public.
The wicked part of me [...]

A Canadian UNICEF worker is among the dead in the suicide bombing of the UN building in Baghad. 32 year old Christopher Klein-Beekman from Courtenay, British Columbia, had been the UNICEF program co-ordinator for Iraq. Three Canadians were injured along with 100 others.
Update: 47 year old Gillian Clark of the Christian Children’s Fund [...]

When two Canadian bloggers have a bit of spare time on a slow August afternoon, mischief is afoot.
Instead of whining about how slow the blogosphere is, Richard Bott of looking back…looking forward and I decided to test our friendship by rating each others blogs with some unusual criteria.
We are inviting our readers to participate, by [...]

If you enjoy blogging so much that you log-sit (check your site counter umpteen times a day) you can now use AIM to notify you when someone is reading your blog.
It’s an HTML script, and if you use MovableType you can code it into a template, if you use other blogging platforms you code it [...]

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, restless, unsure why you are up?
When that happens I ask God if there is anything He wants to bring to my attention. I believe in prayer and I believe that sometimes He is alerting me that someone one needs assistance. Sometimes it is [...]

One happy blogger is back…and they didn’t go through a power black out.
Ireneq had server problems.
For those of us who enjoy this hobby, I can post! I can post! kind of covers it.
Blog on!
Now, if Cre8d and LivingRoom can get their server problems fixed, we’ll have two more happy bloggers, and a lot of happy [...]