Author Archives: Wayne

Apparently Conrad Black did not enjoy his time in the slammer all that much. I don’t often find myself in agreement with his disgraced lordship, but his multi-syllabic [..]

Excuse me if I don’t get all syrupy about Mothers’ Day. I’m no big fan of Fathers’ Day either but I’ll whinge about that another time. Now, don’t [..]

If there’s an ounce of truth to the legend, the biggest whopper George Washington ever told was when he insisted he couldn’t tell one! Forget the fact that [..]

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald).  You think? While I know a lot of folks who [..]

Probably the most “sacred text” in Canada today is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Although the Harper government  is less than enamoured with this magna carta and [..]

Yeah, I’ve still got mine around somewhere. You know, the Smurf-sized Gideon New Testament (mine was maroon) with the Ten Commandments and the Psalms appended in the back. [..]

Okay, so I’m glad they raised $200,000 for cancer research. And, sure, a lot of it was theatre, mostly of the absurd. But the boxing debut between Liberal [..]

No, shucks, darn, I wasn’t at the NDP national leadership convention. Mind you, it was probably just as noisy, just as idealistic and maybe even just as controversial [..]

Whether it’s the stand-up comic who makes us laugh until our sides ache or the class clown who used to crack us up in school, some folks are [..]

I’ve been off the grid for a couple of weeks. A miserable bout of the shingles finally got the better of me two weeks ago and last week [..]