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NICHOLAS MERCER: Alcohol and fire departments don't mix
Let's call this a hypothetical situation. You arrive home from date night with your significant other only to find emergency vehicles attending to the scene of a fire at your home. Watching from a distance, you watch anxiously as firefighters ...
ART & SOUL: The fiction of permanence
Life shifts and changes like a winter landscape, the hummocks and waves of snow leaning this way and that, then depleting until eventually the season is gone, replaced by the budding of the trees and the sprouting of seeds. Eventually grass grows, ...
ALEX HARROLD: Requiem for a sibling
Reflection comes with age, in that there is a direct correlation between getting older and the amount of time we spend reflecting on the past, especially when one year ends and another begins. The year that just ended is going to be a particularly ...
VIBERT: Rationed beds and rationed booze
A friend took in a house guest not long ago and, under a doctor’s instruction, kept the guest medicated with a regular and generous ration of strong drink. Both guest and host were waiting out the days until the former would undergo an ...
GRENFELL MATTERS: The Deans
Welcoming the new students Laura Robinson At least three courses in the School of Arts and Social Science have welcomed non-traditional students this term. Early in the semester a four-week English course titled “L.M. Montgomery ...
GRENFELL MATTERS: Watching the skies at Grenfell
On Feb. 19, the full snow moon will be visible in the night sky, and Corner Brook residents will have the opportunity to see this eloquent moon and the beauty of its surface. Since a young age I have had a love for space, most likely linked to the ...
RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Send me more uplifting trash, please
Trashcan Life @trashcanlife 31 minutes ago Hello, this is container 100419100017965 in Camperdown, Australia. Based on my fill-up history, I expect to be full on Saturday, February 9th 2019. 0 replies 0 retweets 0 ...
RUSSELL WANGERSKY: You can’t always play the bankruptcy card
It’s as simple a concept as buyer beware. Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on a case that, in some ways, looked like it could be solved with simple common sense. When an oil company goes bankrupt, in this ...
VIBERT: Liberals determined to contain critics
Keeping the lid on healthcare has become an obsession for Nova Scotia’s Liberal government. In the past couple of weeks, close observers got a look at the Liberals’ strategy to manage the provincial government’s gravest political ...
LANA PAYNE: Binders full of enemies — Part 2
In some countries when you disagree with the state, they throw you in jail or worse. In Canada, and most recently Ontario, governments find other, more elegant ways to punish or silence their critics. It stems from the notion that ...