The Western Star

After over five decades on this spinning planet, and being an introspective person, I do spend the odd time marveling at the twists and turns life takes. While it can all appear to be random at time, it you peer closely enough at any past event you ...

For a moment, Jules Ohelo thought he was staring at himself.  Albeit, it was a younger version of the man who fled the Congo with his family in the mid-1990s and ended up in Deer Lake in 1999. While helping out at a refugee camp in ...

I love the artificial construct of logic almost as much as I love the infinite variety of nature. I love the idea that, for example, religious philosophers could actually spend time and effort calculating the number of angels that ...

Voter parity — the principle that every vote should carry equal weight — takes a back seat to more effective minority representation in the Nova Scotia legislature, in the interim report of the province’s electoral boundaries ...

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 — ...

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, ...

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 ...