There is a certain pattern to elections. The days come and go and within only a few days some patterns seem to appear. Generalities. Themes. Motifs, even. So far in this one the main theme I see is that the Liberals have not collapsed through their own sheer incompetency. I think we all had …

Happy Fourth of July to our American Readers! I am doing a bit of research that points to our fair town being something of the refuge of the first terrorists of your fair land. Bands of Tory and Mohawk Loyalists in the 1780s left here, for example, to destroy all before them led by John Johnson …

Let me get this straight. 1605 + 400 = 2008? This is the math according to this morning's Globe and Mail:  •  On the eve of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City and the arrival of the French language and culture in North America, Quebec Premier Jean Charest praised bilingualism …

We are a people in need. It is sad but this always comes up - why aren't Canadians as outwardly loyal as others allegedly are to their nations. The Globe and Mail thinks we need a little re-education on this point. A little time out from the family for a nature lesson:  •  On this Canada Day, I …

I don't particularly care for commenting on other bloggers, especially the self-promoting, in large part because much of what is written is so poorly thought out but this passage by Mr. Levant in his one-man ideological battle with the community is so awful in its revision of history that it is …

What is the bird that wakes up by making a call that consists of one cheep followed over a few seconds by seven to ten evenly spaced double cheeps in which the second double cheep is slightly highest in pitch, the rest following slightly lower and quieter? That is the one that made me realize I …

Huzzah! Huzzah!  •  That's what you need to say to your co-workers and employers today. Let them know what you have been doing on the fifth day, how you have idled away the hours, frittered productivity potential leaving the nation needing to borrow to replace the shortfall. I think that is my …

Another Friday. They flow by like the days of the week. A week or so from spring and still there's feet of snow. That's not exactly helping. Morton's teetering and the Orange are gone. At least things are going better for me than they are for Eliot Spitzer. WFAN had an interview with his …

It was a grey old day the other day when I dallied on the other side. But I took the opportunity to stop at all the local history plaques I passed, the car being devoid of those who would complain. Click for more detail of these ones between Alex Bay and Ogdensburg. That's Canada on the other side …