You just can’t trust that Mephistopheles
This just in: show your students clips from the opera Faust, and you’re a lesbian and a satanist. Oh, and those are bad things, so you’ll be suspended. App...
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Africa, here we come
So we’ve paid for the tickets, had all our shots, and today we sent off the last of the visa application papers — Shannon and I are travelling to south east ...
New toy; This week’s lessons from life
Sunday: Do not drive a U-Haul in the snow. They’re too cheap to install snow tires, and since cargo & cube vans are generally rear wheel drive, when dri...
Looking past this election
Canadian voters have spoken, and chosen to be represented by a parliament with 54 NDP and 12 Green Party MPs, plus 114 Conservatives and 96 Liberals. Unfortu...
Watching the news cycle
It’s really fun watching stories make their way from our office into the news. A good example: yesterday, a supporter from Edmonton-Strathcona, our stronges...