Stealth Taxing

July the first is our country of Canada’s national holiday/birthday party, once known as “Dominion Day”, now simply called “Canada Day”. However, for Ontarians, and those citizens in other provinces...

What Not to Get Her For Valentine's Day

With Valentine’s Day swiftly approaching numerous males of our species are consumed, confounded and conflicted with the complicated process of what to purchase for the special female in their lives that best...

My Top Eight News Stories For 2009

            It seems as if, at this time of the years, little tots and small kids are not the only ones making lists. The media is quite adept at...

Canada’s Most Influential Expat in the World

Who is the most influential expatriate from Canada in the world today? That was the question posed by The Canadian Expat Association to its members and readers of its newsletter back in July of this year....

USS New York Visits New York

The phoenix, the mythical bird which was consumed by fire only to rise up again out of the ashes, was  an appropriate choice to grace the crest of a new  $ 1 billion addition to the American naval...

Balloon Boy's Bailout

Having captivated the news media and the lives of hundreds of thousands of observers for over two hours, do the “Balloon Boy’s” parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, deserve a “pass”? Yesterday, October...

Raising Cain

Few have heard of Nobel Prize winning author for Literature, Jose Saramago, (86). But he’s in the literary and theological news today with comments he made concerning the Bible. The author of The...

A Day Set Apart

In North America, certain months are set apart as a time  dedicated to remembering and collecting monies for an important challenge; for example, October is "Breast Cancer Awareness" month. That is an...

Food Fight

Today, The Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)released the conclusions of a study conducted since 1990 in which scientists kept a record of the number of outbreaks and the number of reported...

Snoring Is Not A Laughing Matter

The apocryphal story goes like this: A wife could not stand any longer her husband's snoring. Ear plugs were ineffective; sleeping in another room was indecisive; so she came up with a unique idea. She placed...

Greek Dope?

I've seen in my travels in the U.S.A. that some states sow wildflower seeds in the median strips along major highways. I believe it is a wonderful idea as it beautifies the highway and visually announces that...

Who is Playing House?

            Why are some Americans so afraid of a public option in health care?And are we seeing a quick descent into anger and...

Canada 9/11

Probably on Friday this week, the water cooler topic or the Starbucks discussion focused on what happened eight years ago that morning. Perhaps the conversation led to the question, “Where were you when you heard...

How is an Evangelical Different From a Fundamentalist?

Presidential and gubernatorial elections are times when eventually the wordfundamentalist is bandied about. Eventually the media report how the Republican Party is ruled by fundamentalist Christians on the extreme right. Fundamentalist is a loaded word. All fundamentalists...

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