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I lived overseas for many years, the whole of the 1970’s and 80’s. Sometime during those years, the philosophy at the Canadian National Exhibition, (the CNE or the Ex, as we like to call it) changed. Especially the Food Building. More ... “Coming events cast their shadows before”, wrote Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and chancellor of Glasgow University. H.G. Wells’s 1933 novel Things to Come and the frightening and prescient 1936 film based upon it also emphasised the monitory importance of looking ahead. More ... Some deceits are readily apparent. None moreso than the species arguments being used in a desperate attempt to save the disastrous two-billiondollar boondoggle known as Canada’s long gun registry. More ... Ontario now has a university library named after former premier Mike Harris, but when will it get around to remembering Bob Rae and David Peterson? Both Rae and Peterson preceded Harris as premiers, so it might be thought their time to have something concrete, or at least bricks and mortar, named in their honor has come . More ... TOMMY: “I learned to count in school today. Listen – one, two, three.” MOTHER: “Go on.” TOMMY: “You mean there’s more?” More ... Looking back over 50 years, it was a very brave move, emigrating from Britain to Canada. Anne crossed the Atlantic to join me here, feeling that she was leaving ‘home’ forever. As air travel has expanded we have been back to Britain many times since. The world has become much smaller. It is now much easier to travel to distant parts of the globe. More ... As we enter the last long weekend of the summer, our thoughts focus on a return to fall activities, children back to school, and unless we are retired, a return to a regular work week, with the memories of summer holidays behind us. More ... |
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