Pique'n Yer Interest

In 1970, I was a nerdy 13 year-old Grade 8 student who eagerly embraced the leaps our country was making in modern internationalism under the government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Do you have faith in the political vision of Deez Nuts? At least a small percentage of Americans do, according to polls conducted last month. In one such poll, Mr.

Hanging out for a weekend at Pemberton Music Festival in July made me realize I'm not a young man anymore. That seems to be a recurring theme when I'm in this space.

Well kids, time to look in again at what those crazy campaigning Cons are up to.

How many grammar Nazis does it take to screw in a light bulb?...... Too. Uh-oh. Fourteen words into this column and I am already in trouble.

As an underemployed college student in my early 20s, my work life consisted primarily of a series of profoundly uninteresting retail jobs.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 2, Prime Minister Steven Harper visited Canada's Governor General to request that parliament be dissolved. So began the longest federal election in modern Canadian history.

I interviewed Red Bull 400 race director Geoff Langford twice leading up to it. On both occasions, he asked me if I was going to be giving the climb a go myself.

When it comes to a country's evolution, there's a difference between vision and monovision.

For a couple of weeks I planned to write about forest fires in this column in a don't-throw-that-lit-ciggie-butt! kind of way. Yeah, it's preachy, but I was worried the moisture-free rainforest might explode into flames.