13 years later

September 9, 2014

Realizing that this was more than just an unfortunate accident, the ideas and solutions we had shared with one another the previous week seemed so far out of reach now. The new hope we had fostered at the camp had been swiftly snuffed out by this vicious strike to America’s jugular.

Learning from the past

It is not too often one gets to meet someone as rich in life experience who is as willing as Andy Klashenko to share it with the rest of us.

Building a future

By Nate Smelle TAKING A WALK AROUND the new straw bale building in Riverside Park during the farewell celebration for the Sir Sandford Fleming College ...

Make mine (live) music

By Tony Pearson “MUSIC GIVES SOUL to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and enjoyment to life.” So said ...

Some different meanings of love

By Tony Pearson SUDDENLY WE’RE IN MAY. Soon it will be June – wedding season. That gets me thinking about a gospel passage often quoted ...

Kicking at the Darkness

A timeless message really. Universal wisdom applicable anywhere politics and corruption hold hands.

After midnight

Could this be the real life Dawn of the Dead that would bring on the zombie apocalypse? I remembered the mantra from nearly every film on the undead I had ever seen “remove the head or destroy the brain.

Mental illness: its effect on children

AS MENTAL HEALTH Awareness Week campaigns get underway, I talked with adult children raised by parents who experienced mental illness. The focus of these interviews has been to understand conditions from the eyes of children who grew up in situations where mental health affected the overall experiences within the household.

Outside the big box

Why wouldn’t someone earning minimum wage buy three polyester T-shirts from a sweat shop in Bangladesh for the price of one made of organically grown hemp fabric grown and manufactured here in Canada? One thing for certain is that poverty and low, low prices go hand in hand.