Love Languages
      As I write this article, we're headed towards a special day - Valentine's Day. It's the time of year when many of us make that annual trip to the store to buy a heart-shaped box of chocolates for that special person in our life.
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All the world's a stage
      My love of theatre was probably cemented when my mother took me to the then O'Keefe Centre in Toronto to see Richard Burton play Hamlet. The experience was unforgettable. By then, of course, I was well tuned to the language of Shakespeare and had read and understood Hamlet.
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Dipping Into the Past
Snowstorm stranded passenger train near Melancthon Station
      100 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 20, 1908 • Weather got at its tricks again last weekend. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday it was snow. Saturday the inevitable freeze and snow storm came along. Trees suffered. So did telegraph and telephone wires, Shelburne being shut off from the outside world Saturday.
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About time
      "Could you tell me the right time?" asked the woman at the next table in the coffee shop. Her question posed others. The right time? Did she think that I might deliberately give her the wrong time? Did my watch, in fact, tell the right time? She probably owned a timepiece. Why did she leave home without it? Why does this public place not have a wall clock?
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'Precious few concrete examples' given
      It was former Canadian prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie who said: "The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today." Which brings us, of course, to the current spat between the federal Conservatives and Liberals about just how much Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's serial promises would cost Canadians should they be foolish enough to elect him to the top job.
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Segal a poor choice for Tories' retreat
      Progressive Conservative MPPs in Ontario who have been given a refresher course on how to be true Conservatives clearly are short of role models. Leader John Tory, whose position is in question after he lost the Oct. 10 election, called his party's elected members to a retreat so they could be taught what it means to be a Conservative.
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Taking it Seriously
      The greatest frustration in the ongoing dialogue about environmental deterioration is convincing society (especially government) that this is for real! A'normal' disaster, be it hurricane, earthquake, assassination or plane crash, is news. The media have journalists on the spot with complete TV coverage.
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What is a Canadian?
      Iwas surprised to receive an email chain letter which reported that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian - any Canadian.
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