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What a week of horrors! I can think of no other way to describe it. The images we’ve seen on TV of the devastation in Haiti are indescribably terrible. I’ve been trying to put myself in their place, trying to imagine how it would be if such a catastrophe happened here. More ... “The poor you will have with you always,” Jesus reportedly said to his disciples in defence of the woman who was anointing him with expensive oils – and because he understood the nature of man. At another time, He advised anyone who would listen to: “give all that you have to the poor and come, follow me.” More ... Abox of new cheque books arrived via Canada Post the other day. Maybe I shall save one of them in pristine condition. My grandchildren may show it as my parents displayed surviving wartime ration coupons. More ... Richard Bach, the American author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” once wrote that “There is no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.” More ... I read an article in the Globe and Mail, and then re-read it. The article sounded so familiar that More ... Premier Dalton McGuinty’s cabinet is seeing an exodus of ministers, but it is not simply a case of rats leaving a sinking ship. McGuinty’s Liberals have suffered from scandals and are down in polls, deservedly, and are no longer assured of winning an election in 2011. More ... |
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