Pique'n Yer Interest

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.

Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been at once enthralled and terrified by machines.

Whenever politics comes up, I have a friend whose eyes glaze over into a dull stare. His posture droops until he's stooped over like a wilted flower.

I, unfortunately, haven't been able to make it down to any of the FIFA Women's World Cup action taking place in Vancouver yet.

Among news that caught my attention last week, the standout was neither an Italian neurosurgeon who pledged to attempt the world's first head transplant in the near future (seriously), nor the people busily packing their bags to colonize Mars.

So it's official... in 85 years we will live in a fossil fuel-free world. Awesome. It will be a wonderful day and I hope my grandchildren and great-grandchildren enjoy it, along with whatever shape the world is in by that point.

In Grade 10, I was hunkered down over a math exam when I confronted an algebra question demanding that I find the ever-evasive X.