I was thinking as the torrent of anguish flying around the Canadian bit of the internet began to subside this afternoon about scandels as we have them here. They have tended not to be in the British style about sex or in the US style about power. They tend to be about cash:  •  There were all …

I suppose my recollections are not as profound as others, me not being Catholic, but it was quite the thing when the Pope came to my town in September 1984 at the beginning of my fourth year of undergrad. I don't have any photos but neither does Google Images so I don't feel so bad. Here's the CBC …

I was wondering when I would feel that we have entered a new phase, a post post 9/11 era. I sort of felt it when I read this this morning:  •  “The number of police officers patrolling the Halifax port is about to be cut by two-thirds, CBC News has learned. For several years, nine Halifax Regional …

Barriefield sits to the east of old downtown Kingston, just over the Cataraqui River, largely a collection of 1830s to 1860s cottages to the south of St. Marks Anglican. The plaque out front reads:  •  “This church, a fine example of the early style of Gothic Revival architecture, was built with …

This must have set the armory back a kopek or two! I had heard rumours for a few weeks that something was coming from the east but being a Maritimer you think perhaps smoked herring but never a Soviet army winter cap. From Castle Argghhhh! via redleg75 in that other St. Pete's.  •  We at the …

Is this the way the world begins to end? I am thinking central Europe and Manchuria circa 1935 as a comparator. This time, Myrick was there.

NYCO had the story first and the NYT has it this morning, the paper version with this sweet map which you can click for a larger version. The digital version of the paper has it here. I have said it before but one of the great things about the New York Times is its excellent mapping.  •  This is a …

Home sick for another day, I am reading a book called On Reading the Constitution by Lawrence Tribe, an author recommended to me by a NYC lawyer recommended to me by a now blogging former-classmate of his as well as a collection of essays on the founding of the USA called To Begin The World Anew …