As anyone checking in here can tell, I haven't exactly been the world's most prolific blogger, with a whopping two posts in all of 2012 ( Read more... )

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Keeping up the proud tradition started in 2008 and continued in 2009, 2010, and 2011, I would once again like to offer up a challenge in honour of the holiday for anyone reading this:

Comment here with a topic, any topic, and I will write a limerick about it for you.Please keep it to one topic per comment--though you can comment more than once, ( Read more... )

This has been an election-rich year in Canada.

Besides the federal election, whose results were exactly the opposite of what I'd hoped, there were also provincial elections here in Manitoba as well as in neighbouring Ontario this week, with more provincial elections in most of Canada throughout the year ( Read more... )

If you're interested in reading my recollections of where I was and what I did on 9/11, written on its five-year anniversary, I encourage you to do so--and to comment on that entry even now if you wish.

People never seemed to rush to do so, even though I posted followups in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. For whatever reason(s), I just never got much ( Read more... )

Those of you who've known me for a while will already be aware that I occasionally do a bit of film work, though I don't talk about it that much. Most of what gets filmed in Winnipeg is made for television or direct-to-video, so (even though I've plugged some things I've worked on in the past) I tend to think of it now as something I quietly do on ( Read more... )

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As I write this, the body of the Honourable Jack Layton, Leader of the Official Opposition in Canada, is lying in state in the House of Commons in Ottawa, two days after dying in the early hours of Monday morning. Layton is receiving this honour, along with a state funeral this Saturday, even though it is usually only accorded to the very highest ( Read more... )

What can I say? I was wrong.

Not in a good way, of course.

The Canadian federal election came and went last week, but I've been reluctant to write the post-game wrap-up because the results were so disheartening. People reading this in the United States and elsewhere can start with CNN's article about the election results, which has some decent ( Read more... )

I hadn't brought it up here until now, but a federal election was called in Canada a couple of weeks ago, to be held on May 2. (If nothing else, Americans reading this may have caught Stephen Colbert making the announcement.)

You can follow the news on it more closely if you'd like (there are plenty of social media options for this, too), but let' ( Read more... )