On May 16th, Prime Minister Paul Martin will probably announce we are going to the polls June 28th.
‘Bout time.
I’ve seen some Conservative Party ads - “I’m Steven Harper.”
Tame so far. That’s not what we are hearing about the Liberal ads.
If they start the negative advertising, I don’t think they’ll win points with the undecided.
The last [...]

In 1993 Canadian citizens received a rude awakening.
Our ‘peace-keepers’, members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, tortured and killed a Somolian teen-ager. The boy was 16.
The government and the military brass chose to ignore the central decay of a department that had been unable to detect the bad characters and properly train the good. Instead [...]

The Green Man wrote a good post on the necessity of pain in our lives.
Of course pain does not only arise from physical discomfort. Emotional pain has, perhaps, an even more profound impact on our sense of completeness as a human being. Think back to your first romantic disaster. Would you want to go back [...]

Some while ago my wife was doing a spot of tidying in the shed and garage. She came across a box containing some bottles of home-brewed beer, that must have been at least 12 years old. Remarkably, they were still as drinkable as when they were made (which isn’t very!), but even more remarkably we’ve [...]