An interesting week for we and Canada Post. One day a package that hardly registered for weight within province was taken for posting and the clerk said "eight bucks." "Eight bucks! Forget it. Give it to her next time we visit." On another day, two packages with identical size and identical …

I was confused a little when I looked at the Toronto Star this morning and not just by the recent change in web layout. I was clicking on this story about hockey and about Stephen Harper when it dawned on me that it was a story about hockey by Stephen Harper, the leader of the land. We are told in …

The Toronto Star has an update on the slow but now steady recovery of Trevor Greene, my fellow Kingsman, who was seriously injured in Afghanistan last spring. Best wishes for him and his family are being posted here. My thoughts are certainly with him and his family at this time of gathering and …

I guess socialism is a-ok when it is rural socialism:  •  “The Conservative government is ordering Canada Post to protect rural mail delivery and maintain a fund that subsidizes postage for Canadian magazines. Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon announced Wednesday that he has directed the Crown …

If you read the beer blog at all you will know that I am a big a fan of beer and spirits writer Lew Bryson of Pennsylvania - whose books you all should buy by the way. Lew is the first guy to answer any emailed question the amateur beer writer might have - the one the other week about how to find …

I have never embraced the idea that one should not say anything if you have nothing nice to say. This is the ethic of the charlatan and the git. This is not to say that one should not use good manners as problems are honestly surveyed. Yet one has to admire the particular gusto with which this …

What a week - a blur. I swear I was 27 when it started and now I have kids  •  and a mortgage. Thing I learned? Buying gifts for a kids party was easier when  •  they were two. You can buy an old shoe and stick some red masking tape on it and  •  a two-year old would be happy. Now they have taste …

Interesting to read this lead in an Associated Press story running in the Toronto Star this morning:  •  “BEIRUT (AP) — Battles between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas raged Tuesday across southern Lebanon as diplomats at the United Nations struggled to keep a peace plan from collapsing …

Rob has written something very interesting and has packed in his faith that a tipping point is coming. I suppose my first inclination to find this interesting is based on the fact that I have never been a tipping-pointer or a dichotomist. The world and human participation in it is too complex. But …