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)…
Day: January 11, 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….