I’m disappointed that so few people have asked me how they should vote in next week’s referendum. (So far, absolutely nobody, but there's still time!) But I didn’t get where I am today by letting the complete indifference of the public at large prevent me from foisting my opinions willy-nilly on an unsuspecting readership, so here I go.
There’s something weird about picking mid-October – the point in the calendar where things are about to go completely in the crapper for the next six months – as a time to give thanks.
“To everything there is a season," wrote King Solomon in his bestselling book, Ecclesiastes. Sadly, the best two seasons of 2026 are now behind us, and they’ve taken a lot of the good stuff with them.
The return of the Drayton Valley Wildcats after a lengthy hiatus has got me thinking about other fixtures of life in the 1990s that I’d like to see make a comeback. Here’s a quick rundown in no particular order.
Life moves pretty fast. Later this week it will be 25 years to the day since I was woken up by a phone call from a friend telling me to turn on the television because “they are crashing planes into the World Trade Centre.”
If you’re a teacher who has just headed back to school I have some bad news. Facebook says you’ve been doing it wrong. Or, to be more specific, you’ve been teaching the wrong stuff.
I remember when I let my kids walk to school alone for the first time. I stood in our big front window waving, and blowing kisses fighting the urge to jump in my car and follow them. I told myself repeatedly that if I didn’t get a call from the school wondering where they were, they must have made it safely and they did.
Folks, this month I find myself at war with nature. And so far it looks like nature is winning Last night I was awoken by the sound of crashing from right outside the bedroom window.
First it was caterpillars. Then it was rain. Then it was smoke. Then it was more rain. Then it was mosquitoes. Then it was moths. And then it was tornadoes.
So this year on Heritage Day. I’ll be reflecting that being Scottish is great. But being Canadian is pretty cool too.