Monday, March 30, 2026
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.” — Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall wrote these words for her memoir, which was published first as By Myself in 1978, and then revised and published in 2005… Read More
Sunday, March 29, 2026
“Canada is a collection of 10 provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.” — Dave Broadfoot As a good Canadian kid in the Seventies, I grew up on Dave Broadfoot (not to mention Sgt…. Read More
Saturday, March 28, 2026
About a dozen years ago, I went out one evening to buy a simple counter-top radio — and I wound up picking up a lesson in changing consumer tastes. The anecdote has been on my… Read More
Saturday, March 28, 2026
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”— Groucho Marx A pop culture fixture long before my time, Groucho Marx was still a… Read More
Friday, March 27, 2026
Goodness, did the boys in Keane actually look like boys when we glance back more than two decades to their breakthrough hit, Somewhere Only We Know. It seemed to be everywhere in 2004. The trio… Read More
Friday, March 27, 2026
“Recreation means to ‘recreate’ — it’s spiritual. Think about the actual word. It’s fascinating what a beautiful word it is when you look it up in the dictionary.”— Billie Jean King One of the greatest… Read More
Thursday, March 26, 2026
“A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.”— P.J. O’Rourke Swimming first with the counterculture, P.J…. Read More
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
“The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.”– Joe Orton The playwright Joe Orton said these words during an interview published in… Read More
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
When I read last week that the executive of the students’ union at Memorial University wants to eliminate the campus radio station, I was taken straight back to the 1980s, when youthful politicians around Canada… Read More
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the ‘fantasy woman’ is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don’t think that… Read More
Monday, March 23, 2026
“I always find there’s a kind of serendipity to research. I’m a generalist, so one of the things that compels me to a story is addressing my own ignorance.”— David Grann I came across this… Read More
Sunday, March 22, 2026
It sounds benign, but a “correction” in the finance world is an unpleasant word indeed. And it’s right on our doorstep. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 444 points, landing at 45,577…. Read More
Sunday, March 22, 2026
One of the biggest stories in the U.K. this weekend is the death of Jenni Murray, who hosted the program Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 for more than three decades. Murray, 75, died March… Read More
Saturday, March 21, 2026
While you sleep, what’s in easy reach? It likely includes a lamp, something to read, your phone charger or maybe a glass of water. When RCMP searched a house in St. John’s recently, they found… Read More
Saturday, March 21, 2026
“That’s what books are, they’re containers for memory. They’re containers for the stories of the past. It’s an artifact that allows you to communicate with the past… I would imagine most writers have this sense… Read More