Dear Readers, An open, democratic, market based society like Canada is far more fragile than we think. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terro...

This summer has been a good one for fireflies. A couple of weeks ago we got spectacular natural fireworks. And the cicadas are literally...

GM has brought a mid engine Corvette to market. Blasphemy say some, about time sat others. They have sold the entire first year of produc...

Summer has hit, bringing hot, humid and frequently wet weather to southwestern Ontario. My life, like a lot of others on vacation, has si...

Falling off your bike is not something I would wish on anyone. Well maybe Idi Amin, or Pol Pot or some anonymous torturer in a prison in ...

It’s the first day of the rest of your life. And mine. One thing to say it, another to feel it deep down. One is left wondering what thos...

Attended the staff end of the year party last night and made the speech I avoided doing during the more formal occasions I attended previ...

Shane, a western classic that was made into an iconic film starring Alan Ladd was the novel this week. It was a strange read. I enjoyed i...

It was 75 years ago yesterday that the Allies crossed the English Channel and launched an assault on Nazi occupied Europe. Being Canadian...

This edition makes a full year I have been writing a weekly blog. I have enjoyed it most of them time as I hope you have. It is remarkabl...

I retired from teaching this week. Or, I just left the profession. Or, I became a writer (although that was a part time thing before). An...

Lilium is back in the news. I wrote about this company a year ago and now they have their five-seater electric jet built and tested. Well...

This is remarkable. The face you are seeing is computer-generated. It is a result of a new approach to programming which provides a datab...

I’m listening to a novel I read long ago, ‘Shogun’ by James Clavell. The audio recording is horrible, because it was done before that was...

There is a 9-year-old girl living in my city who was on the front page of the only newspaper in town this morning. It seems that she want...

Spring is in the air. A familiar phrase but one that felt, this morning anyway, to be accurate when I poked my head out of our front door...

My wife and I went to the Art Gallery of Ontario to see the Impressionism in the Age of Industry exhibit last weekend. It was not disappo...

I was struck this week by several stories in the media about the growing crush of refugees/immigrants at the borders of the developed wor...

The Vice President of the United States has promised that the US will land astronauts on the moon by 2024. To a person of my age, that da...

The weather seems to have broken, at least for now. I was in Nashville last week on holiday and it got to 24 degrees on Thursday. It was ...