Just as the horse-and-buggy changed the mode of transportation, driverless cars are set to change our lives dramatically in the coming decades. We already have witnessed the self-parking vehicle. And Google has pioneered a fleet of cars that currently are travelling hundreds of thousands of miles to prove they are […]
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Well, it’s official—on Friday night I finally cut the last of my hay. I had high hopes that with a couple of sunny days, we would have it all baled up! When I saw the weather forecast for Sunday, I tried raking and baling some late Saturday night but it […]
As a New Democrat, I’m a proud supporter of the “sustainable development” of our natural resources. If you are wondering why, then look no further than the massive ecological disaster that occurred last week at Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley open-pit copper and gold mine in British Columbia. The United Nations […]
In 1966, almost 50 years ago, our family moved halfway across the continent for a job. My husband had just finished his Master’s degree at the University of Alberta and had been invited to teach at a small church college in the middle of the United States. The thought of […]
We have begun marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. It supposedly was the “war to end all wars” but looking back, issues that caused the war—and the festering in nations created by the Versailles treaty that divided up the world again—are causing worry and problems […]
I’m an introvert. I pretend I’m not; have covered up that truth pretty well over the years—often over-compensating for the quiet I love best while keeping hidden my need for silence and alone time. My generation were told early on in life that only the bold would succeed, pointing to […]
There is a deeply-tragic series of events that has led to economic exclusion and physical endangerment of the people of the Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations on their own territory. It is completely unacceptable and the fault for this lies exclusively with the Crown. As we all know, relations […]
Some people feel old at 80, others at 40, and others at 50. There was only one time in my whole life when I felt “old.” That was on my 25th birthday. How did I ever go from being the youngest person in the class–too young to hear the other […]
As has been the case for the past 15 years, the past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for me. The week in Fort Frances for the Canadian Bass Championship was hectic to say the least. Then I spent most of last week guiding clients on Lake of the […]
I posted this last week on my Facebook timeline, but it deserves a second viewing for those of you not on my Facebook list of “friends” (it’s such an exclusive club—not). Every single person who stood up at the Baltimore Ravens’ training camp last week and gave a standing ovation […]
As I left work last Friday, I quickly called the kids over to take a look at what I was seeing on the computer! Of course, it was a weather site and it predicted nice weather for the next week (well, it did say a slight chance of 1-3 mm […]
I’m an introvert. I pretend I’m not; have covered up that truth pretty well over the years—often over-compensating for the quiet I love best while keeping hidden my need for silence and alone time. My generation were told early on in life that only the bold would succeed, pointing to […]
