If you read this year’s Remembrance Day posts [1,2] you will be familiar with the passage that I read on air for CBC’s On the Coast on November 11th. My Great Grandfather survived Vimy Ridge largely unscathed, until he went back there in the 1980s and...
In the second of this series honouring Remembrance Day, my Great Grandfather William Markle Pecover submitted a very angry piece to Winnipeg’s daily Free Press Evening Bulletin, forerunner of the Winnipeg Free Press, which published the story on Sept. 22, 1917. ...
In Honour of Canadian Remembrance Day, which honours the Armistice of November 11, 1918 and the service of soldiers before and since that bloody war, I am republishing two excerpts from the collected memoirs of my Great Grandfather, a veteran of two world wars, and in...
I read a really salient comment today on an otherwise not terribly interesting article @ CBC News. After an article describing high-end street-walking prostitutes being herded out of Vancouver’s Yaletown in advance of the oncoming Olympic onslaught, commenter...
American politics are so polarized at the moment around the issue of health care that it’s hard to envision a favourable outcome. Â I would define a favourable outcome as a more cost-efficient system that guarantees coverage for all American citizens and...
Sarah Palin’s greatest gift to popular culture (among many) might just well be Levi Johnston. His cause celebre has been taken up by D-List genius Kathy Griffin. For such a comedian the spectacle of a rube among the Hollywood elite, unprepared as he remains...
