Transformation 45
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I liked Jack. And, liking him, I have no problem calling him “Jack”.
I’d never spoken with him. I saw him only in restaurants in the nineties, and spotted him once in 2009 as he walked alone down University Avenue past the Horton’s I was attending. (Is there another first-world nation where the leader of [...]
I picked up a dozen or so books recently, ready to scratch a few titles off my list. Two were Orson Scott Card’s Keeper of Dreams, and Joseph Boyden’s Born With A Tooth, both short story collections.
By coincidence, I read the first stories of each collection one after the other, beginning with Card’s. Though [...]
This morning was beautiful, a sunny and crisp day. We’ve been hiking the Bruce Trail every weekend for a long time, and we were looking forward to a trip to Speyside and parts north, to sections we’d never seen before. We got the usual coffee while engaging in the usual playful banter, looked at the [...]
When asked by The Globe and Mail if he accepted evolutionary theory, Conservative Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear offered a curious response.
I’m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don’t think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate.
Around the country, scientists were [...]
“Ordinary people” don’t care about the arts, and artists are elitist snobs who whine at extravagant taxpayer-funded galas about government subsidies not rising quickly enough. And with that denigrating assessment, Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his government’s forty-five million dollar pre-election gutting of arts funding in Canada.
I think when ordinary working people come home, [...]
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