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Embracing change

Embracing change

There was a funny post on social media the other day. It said, in essence, "I took the path less travelled and... now I have no idea where I am.
The bad thing about LAWS

The bad thing about LAWS

One of my daughters once proposed that my T-shirt should read: "I don't support war, but war supports me." And it's true, I suppose.
Offshore skies

Offshore skies

With a cloudless sky and the wind at our backs, we sail from Toronto on the idyll of a late-summer evening. One of the world's most dramatic cityscapes, T.O.
Letters to the editor for the week of September 10th

Letters to the editor for the week of September 10th

Camp accommodation? This is a repeat of a letter I wrote to the editor 15 years ago.
Letters to the Editor for the week of September 3rd

Letters to the Editor for the week of September 3rd

Housing issues must be addressed Having been a regular visitor over the last few years for a holidays in Whistler I like to keep in touch with happenings over there through the electronic version of Pique.
More good ground

More good ground

As I stroll the fields at Laughing Crow Organics with proprietors Andrew Budgell and Kerry McCann, Mt. Currie looms behind.
Deniers are all over the map; climate realists all over the world

Deniers are all over the map; climate realists all over the world

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a Heartland Institute conference in Las Vegas where climate change deniers engaged in a failed attempt to poke holes in the massive body of scientific evidence for human-caused climate change.
Forty years and counting

Forty years and counting

It seemed almost fitting that the rain began to fall this week (OK, deluge might be a better description of the wet stuff) as we head toward, and into, the Labour Day long weekend.
Giving good ground

Giving good ground

It was the success of a dish of maple-glazed kohlrabi and Japanese turnip at a potluck dinner that sold me.
Letter to the editor for the week of August 27th

Letter to the editor for the week of August 27th

G.D. for prime minister! I couldn't help but laugh when I read Lisa Haeck's letter (criticizing G.D. Maxwell) in Pique last week (good on the Pique for printing it). In fact I found her "best-of" compilation, hating on G.D.