Durham — most famous for observing that British North America included “two nations warring in the bosom of a single state” — advocated the union of Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) and the introduction of responsible government. At the time the Ma...
China has used the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank and its Belt and Road Initiative to gain regional influence with vulnerable countries, in what has been called “debt-trap diplomacy”. Yet, Canada is a member of the AIIB, contributing $256 million towards Chi...
While we appreciate that the first shot does not provide total protection, it does provide much better than no immunisation, so when Karen said Dee was leaving for Ontario at the end of the month of April and were we up to a lunch to bid her farewell, My Beloved and I said, since w...
In the aftermath of significant loss experiences, the core beliefs that comprise our assumptive world are challenged, and the entire structure that we have built our lives begins to crumble. There is no going back; the way the world made sense before and the expectations and beliefs that were...
Otis Robert was a public servant to the town of Hudson. Elected to the Board of Selectmen in 1922, serving some 18 years until 1940 after which he announced he was not a candidate for re-election. He also served as our town’s first Overseer of the Poor. He was remembered by his fe...
It would be the harbinger of an entirely new medium of calculation, borrowing subatomic interactions to solve incalculable problems. Your part in making it happen may begin with convincing yourself black is white and up is down.
And there is the previous investment thing that Ken Campbell mentions in the hockey book. The longer you pursue a particular goal, the more resources you put into the pursuit, the harder it is to stop, even when success isn’t likely. This explains why gamblers can’t seem to stop gambli...
Many Americans consider “the election” to be the fundamental institution of democracy, and to spoil our common trust in its practical efficacy and salutary potency disrespects the rules of the game from a procedural perspective – this is a process which he willingly joined and the rules of ...
The thing is Trump’s election in 2016 started ripping off a lot of those masks. Partly — and only partly — because Trump will say things everyone is afraid to say, out loud. (Which, to an extent is why he was elected in the first place.) But partly because the left went so ins...
OTTAWA — Artists are to get paid when their work is resold in a shakeup of copyright laws that would give them a slice of collectors' profits.