Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press – December 23, 2011 VANCOUVER — I sat down to write about the greatest gift I’ve ever received. But, like a river in flood that carves a new channel, it became about my mother. Here, hard-eyed, I declare a sour disposition toward columns about (a) one’s mother and (b)…
Month: January 2012
Looking back in anger, among other things
Appeared in the North Shore News – January 6, 2012 STEPHEN Harper’s re-election the media’s choice of biggest Canadian story of 2011? Wow, that stirs the blood. My list: No. 1 Horror Story: The Whistler sled dog massacre. CKNW stumbled on this indescribably reprehensible slaughter of at least 52 healthy dogs only by a fluke….
Reaping the harvest of a mother’s gift
Appeared in the North Shore News – December 23, 2011 I sat down to write about the greatest gift I’ve ever received. But, like a river in flood that carves a new channel, it became about my mother. What follows being an entirely self-indulgent reminiscence, and this being the season of gift-giving, I will try…
Gentleman John extraordinarily ordinary
Appeared in the North Shore News – December 9, 2011 THE most terrifying man in British Columbia slipped in and out of West Vancouver last week. Where was our vaunted national security network when we really needed it? Aw, just funnin’. Gentleman John Cummins is no threat – except to the B.C. Liberal government and…