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A mere 54 weeks ago, I wrote in this space about having a moment where you feel like your life is flashing before your eyes.

We may have escaped the worst of forest fires and flooding, but recent weather events in this part of Canada have some of us thinking about cows – namely airborne cows, from tornadoes.

It sucks. There is no way to sugar coat it, no way to make it sound better than it is, other than to say it sucks. The layoffs at Wescast, announced last week, suck.

Build it and they will come.

At the height of the California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century, prospectors from all over the continent made their way to the territory for the opportunity to literally find their fortunes in the rough terrain surrounding the American and Sacramento rivers.

Friends, I recently returned from a solo road trip out to Western Canada.

“If you don’t know where you came from, how will you know where to go?” asked the voice recording of my Grandma Skinner. I heard versions of that phrase often when spending time in the log cabin south of Mitchell that my paternal grandparents called home by the time I came on the scene.

Is it “aging” or “ageing?”

I sometimes meet people who think I’m a little loony for believing that anything in the Bible is true. But I gotta tell you, this collection of 66 books written over centuries has got me hooked.

Surely, most of us reading this paper today are familiar with Hulk Hogan, perhaps professional wrestling’s first mainstream mega star.

A Canadian teen who scratched a name into a wooden pillar at a 1,200-year-old Japanese temple caused a bit of an international furor recently.

It was 20 some odd years ago that I was sitting in a fitness and health promotion class at Brock University when I learned something I will never forget. Professor Kim Gamage asked us this: “How long does it take to lose the training affect?” What she was asking was, how long does someone need to st

Major League Baseball has blown through the midpoint of the season with games on pause this week, as stars head to Seattle for the All-Star Game. Figured I would risk a turf war with Mr. McNee over in sports and give a midseason report card on the bluebirds.

It was pushing 11 months since I had taken a full week of holidays before escaping the office last week for a little R and R.

The stabbing of a professor and two students at the University of Waterloo in late June horrified us in ways that more serious attacks elsewhere in the world have not.