News From The Cracks
Last week I read these news headlines… ‘Trump says Canadians are smuggling shoes’ ‘Britain and Europe facing beer shortage during world cup’ ‘Canada passes final reading of cannabis law‘ …
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The Sports Ritual
Wow!! Okay that was a little too close for comfort. After I published my last piece both teams promptly went out that lost that night. The basketball Raptors were unceremoniously…
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I have been hard on teenagers in the past. Their under-developed understanding of just about everything has caused me to be frustrated by their actions. Their lack of fore-thought before…
READ MORESaner Heads
World politics is not an area that I usually venture in to. Not because I don’t have an opinion but because I don’t feel I am knowledgeable enough to voice…
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Welcome to 2018. For those of you that are alive reading this, raise your hand if you never thought you would reach this day. Don’t bother raising your hand Uncle…
READ MORESeeing Your Face
I did something the other day that made me feel I was in one of those science fiction books I read as a kid, I made a video call. Honey…
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Forty-eight months, four years, it seems like a long time, hell it feels like a long time, but in the grand scheme of things it is but a microcosm. That…
READ MORECrumbling Around Us
‘Infrastructure’ is a word that I hear used frequently at this time of year, and it is usually preceded by the word ‘decaying’. Infrastructure is the basic underlying framework that…
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Lack of time this week means you get something from the past. This was written in 2014 but seems to be just as relevant today as then. Now the President…
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Two weeks ago Mother Nature shut down my life for two days as she raged across the prairies. This week her buddy Murphy (of the law fame) decided he would…
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