Community Corner

A week in the company of newly born grandson, Charlie Jack, compresses time, restores memories, and marks age. This baby comes from the young woman whose birth I experienced. Time folds over on itself and kneads new life. Only the calendar is linear. Each event unique. Each parent learns anew. Observations, worries and ...

 Christmas 2004 a bit spread out. First a celebration with Simon and Beth and Monique and Brian. Next week a delayed Christmas with full family when Lisa comes for a brief stay. We kept our promise to her and held up almost all of the gift opening until she arrives. Christmas is marked by some memorable small moments of spirit and joy. ...

A country where few have work except those indentured to government and corporations, guided by a beleaguered citizenry that produces little worth anything except to fill time; that stops caring for shared spaces and values; that learns nothing from past or future; that promotes self annihilation for cultures and communities -- that is the ...

The days after 9/11 left many feeling overwhelmed and empty at the the same time. Constant re-play. A thousand variations on the same conversation. Thanks to our friends, the Macmillan's, we were able to get away to a quiet place. Allenwood Beach is a beautiful stretch just outside an endless summer honky tonk, Wasaga. Some of our ...

Boosting and boasting about the 'world-class' qualities of an institution, company, product or service are vain attempts to raise the self-perceptions and that of others. Specialization and complexity create countless opportunities for claiming this honour at one level or another. To those who achieve and to those who aspire, ...

My morning walking buddy frequently leads me to new insights. This past Friday, we detoured through a small parkette near the waterfront. Leaving the small green space near an on-ramp to the highway overhead we came on this message. Someone had chalked it on a girder. On Good Friday these words take on many meanings to one who believes. Later ...

American voices of reason continue to speak wisely about the dangers of this war. The dangers to long term American interests. The dangers to the young people who are both killing and dying. His analysis and admonitions come from a unique combination that includes a Phd in history, a distinguished flying cross and a run at the ...

Earlier today one of the best known Vietnam war protest songs returned to radio. Not because of a resurgence of protest, but because its singer, Edwin Starr, died from a heart attack. One of a seemingless endless parade of Motown performers. He lived, performed and died in England. Melody and lyrics merged anti-war feelings from ...

Peter Arnett is keeping alive the flame of free speech and free thought. His words and analysis will now come from the country that lost a rebellion, a colony, and eventually an empire because it could not sustain its world view. What better berth to observe the growth of the New American Century than from the centre of one of the last great world ...

The world's largest military welfare state is demonstrating the awesome / murderous results of a foreign policy driven by a military-industrial complex that cannot afford diplomacy, multi-lateralism or any other path threatening its value perception. Aside from the obvious subsidization of research, development and production, the justification ...