The Western Star

The earliest memory I have of my grandfather, Wilbur Sparkes, is from when I was four years old. We are in the kitchen of the family’s Bay Roberts home on Cable Avenue and we’re doing something we did many times after — ...

The bottom line drives the decision, and the company says, “these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back, to your hometown.” Oshawa’s the hometown, and GM’s the company. But the story’s old and familiar, ...

Being a research mathematician is, in some respects, the ultimate “ivory tower” profession. Essentially, it involves being paid to sit in a room and think, but it’s not always that way. It’s a very international business, ...

The earliest memory I have of my grandfather, Wilbur Sparkes, is from when I was four years old. We are in the kitchen of the family’s Bay Roberts home on Cable Avenue and we’re doing something we did many times after — ...

Most Americans care little and know less about the rest of the world. But the ‘Make America Great Again’ mythology they bought into play two years ago — despite the better judgment of a slight majority — included the ...

There are things you can’t say. You may believe them, they may even be absolutely true, but you can’t say them. Because saying them out loud has other ramifications. They lead to behaviours that you didn’t expect, ...

When then provincial finance minister Cathy Bennett held a news conference in December 2016 to reveal she was a victim of cyberbullying, the disturbing — sometimes violent — messages she had been receiving were ...

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland came down east this week to take a bit of a victory lap for cutting a new trade deal that the petulant pup in the White House actually gets to chalk up as a win. There were Freeland ...

If the Holyrood Generating Station was a used car, you probably wouldn’t buy it. I mean, you’d walk around it, kick the tires a bit, and ask the current owner if there had been any problems with the thing. Will it go ...

It’s rarely as bad as we think it’s going to be. I am talking, of course, about the first major snowstorm of the year. I was going to write it is ‘never’ as bad as we think it’s going to be, but as anyone who has ...