麻豆传媒

Short-lived Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Kim Campbell was sadly wrong when she said an election is no time to debate ideas. Yes, elections are about determining who should govern us.

I'm not a big philosopher and I don't particularly spend much time dwelling on the past when it comes to anything because I figure what's done is done; but this week's airplane crash in Russia that wiped out an entire professional hockey team as well

Biologists recently found a strange monkey in the Amazon. They didn't know this unusual creature with its bright red beard and tail even existed.

God has gifted us all with seven days per week. Like beads, he strings them together with a sturdy thread of words - read, spoken, even written.

We're passed Labour Day and the signs point to that special time. The combines are rolling, the leaves are starting to turn and the annual 'Rider-Bomber Labour Day Classic is in the books.

It was a somewhat surprising story which hit the front page of this newspaper last week.

Is it just me, or is it hard to believe that it's September already? Wasn't it just a moment ago that you and I were talking about starting our gardens, and what we would plant; and now the days are so much shorter and the air is crisper.

I spent a week around July 1 in a cabin on one of Haida Gwaii's remote islands. I was there to celebrate a birthday - not Canada's, but my grandson's second.