There always seems to be a day off before these school breaks. The day before that is a day that nothing gets done, the ones before that focus on what you are going to do when school is closed. I will work - by comparison of significant degree - and work I will. Not with a shovel but with a …

News out of Quebec City that the relationship between French and English Canada is far more spicy and even licentious than we had imagined:  •  “Now don't get angry when I tell you that you are completely neurotic,” he said in his presentation. “You are like a sadomasochist couple. The sadist … read more »

Ah, a whole work week has come and gone without any Olympics buggering up the TV. We have other things to think about... apparently. Some think we have little on our minds but I think the nation stands for more than that. Me, I stand for a shot at getting out the Weber char-bee-que tomorrow and …

It must be tough being a social engineer. All the long days and nights working at changing things to make them as the outta be and, you are convinced, as they really were at some past purer point in time. A time so pure that no one brushed their teeth let alone with minty floride paste. A time so …

Ottawa has become so irrelevant to the Canadian way of life that I thought I would try to think if there was anything a Federal budget could contain that would actually affect my life. Sadly, in addition to jurisdictional irrelevance through all patry shrinking, it is likely the current Federal …

Remember when you had that big party, spent far too much on the booze you gave to your friends, put out far too many types of corn chips and pretzels? Remember the feeling a few days later when you couldn't believe you blew a month's rent and now had nothing to show for it? Well, apparently the …

So it winds up today with one of the most anticipated hockey games in years if not since last week. My cynicism has been somewhat dissipated though I am hardly a bandwagoneer either. Co-opting the skills of the athletes for the alleged purity of the Olympic movement or Federal politics has fallen …

I hate February. The only thing that makes the winter Olympics alright is that it happens in February so that there is something to do - like watching the bobsled. I usually a have a bad cold in February as I still do now, holding on for more than a week. My eyeballs feel like grapefruits. I had … read more »

Sooner or later things reconcile. Often it is after those holding the two sides of the unhappiness are dead. Is Bouchard trying to prod the matter along sooner than that?  •  ...Lucien Bouchard has steadfastly avoided public comment on his once-cherished cause. On Tuesday evening, however, he …