“The day is cold, and dark, and dreary It rains, and the wind is never weary…” From “The Rainy Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The evergreens across the road have been rendered into shadowy versions of themselves by a bank of low fog that’s ...

“History repeats itself – the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce,” said Karl Marx. He was talking about European history, of course, and here it comes again, a century later, doing a tribute act to the 1920s. Germany In Germany, we have ...

The movie 'The King Tide' is now showing in a theatre in St John's. It was filmed in Keels, Bonavista Bay, in 2022. Keels is about a 30-minute drive from Bonavista. Why Keels was chosen as the site for the film, I don't know. However, it has its own ...

The province of Ontario has just introduced the most restrictive ban on cellphone use in schools in the country. Yet, even that does not seem thorough enough to turn the tide on one of society’s greatest challenges in this age. Set to begin in ...

We have all seen the ads for laser eye surgery promoting 20/20 vision and a life liberated from glasses. While this may be true for many, it's not the reality for everyone. For me, Aug. 20, 2021, stands out as a day that I will never forget – it ...

If anybody doubted the ‘otherness’ of the Province of Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith’s latest power grab may help to illustrate it. The dear lady has, since her election to the office of Premier, tried to sabotage the universal effort to fight ...

The furor over Justice Minister John Hogan’s saying it was impossible for a lawyer to re-traumatize a complainant in the trial of someone she had accused of sexual assault reminded me of something the late Chief Justice Robert Furlong of the Supreme ...

JEERS: to speeding, particularly in construction zones. Recently, among those caught for speeding by police were two drivers zooming through construction zones on the west coast of Newfoundland. A 26-year-old Corner Brook man was ticketed after he ...

“We could see an all-out war between all the tribes and that is really the doomsday scenario. At this point, it’s not unrealistic,” the head of an international non-government organization that is working in Sudan told the Al Jazeera news agency last ...

I’ve been fortunate to have spent a career in the Air Force and travelled all over the world. Of course, being sick or having accidents didn’t just happen back home in Canada, so I’ve experienced the health-care systems in many of those countries. In ...