I hear there is a purple pill that will fix all this but I have to figure out the right question to ask. Until then sputter, hack, wheeze.  •  Technology apparently hates Santa and ruined at least one little child's Christmas forever. What next - anti-Santa beer? Santa and beer???  •  Via Ben the …

It's all so sad - bad service, unfreeing regulation, poor neighbourliness and a very short memory:  •  “ The list of import duties listed on Industry Canada's website is hundreds of pages long. The section governing just shoes, a popular online purchase, and other footwear is 15 pages long. The …

Snow day coming, too. In November. Global cooling is good. The bog lake even looked better with that beach at Elevator Bay, the one that emerged over the last few months, being flooded over. The swans returned there this week. December is tomorrow which will make next year next month.  •  Update …

Isn't having a minority government that knows it will never get a majority neat? Aside from the image of a runaway train clattering towards the disaster of earning the label "arrogant" faster than any government in Canadian history, it is a real lesson in the actual division of powers within the …

Sick at home, I must have lost a few levels of my patience. Maybe it's the glimmer of green power now that Saskatchewan has won the Grey Cup, after the last time of which occurrence my Sask roomie at university gave us all a lifetime's worth of the various ways to display your bombastic Rider …

Could there be any more embarrassing reason to maintain what used to be a worthy national institution until it got so boringly self important?  •  “"We do have some concerns about [the decision], notwithstanding fact that it happened on the French-language side," Ian Morrison, spokesman for …

The first snow settled in to Easlakia just when a rotten creaky achy cold arrived as well. Days and days of not June. But, still, the holiday feeling is starting already. Just four work weeks to go, after all. But everything is not as jolly as it should be.  •  The spirit of the season appears to …

To a movement that tosses notions like "heritage" and "values" around without ever wondering what the content of these words means, it is interesting watching the differences in understanding pop out when the temperature starts heating up:  •  “In a province where Mulroney is fondly remembered for …