• Government census decision puzzling
    July 28, 2010
    So the federal government will no longer make it mandatory to fill out the long-form census. Do you care? Probably not. The census form just isn...
  • To boldly go … up the steps of Rideau Hall
    April 28, 2010
    Star Trek fans have a lot of power. Back in 1968 when the original series was threatened with cancellation by NBC executives who had no idea it...
  • He wore what?
    April 20, 2010
    Early photographs of Dr. Abraham Groves’s property on St. David Street South - the large stone buildings now given the street address 160 - show a...
  • Missing My 'Me Time'
    March 25, 2010
    Ever since my wife and I decided to have our second child - shortly after we discovered we were pregnant - I've been nervous about the changes coming...
  • Post-Olympic Letdown
    March 10, 2010
    I don't know about you, but I'm really missing the Games. It's not just the sports, either, it's a lot of the little things. First of all, and I...
  • Wave the flag - we did it
    March 3, 2010
    I was surprised that one of Canada's national TV news organizations had to ask an American journalist to rate the success of the 2010 Vancouver...
  • Snow defines Canadian psyche
    March 3, 2010
    Provided we can throw any debate about global warming out the window, we can all agree in this part of the province at least, it's been a great winter...
  • Two-tier bandage for health care?
    February 10, 2010
    I really wanted to do my column this week on the health care system, specifically to advocate a two-tier system. Essentially, what I mean is introduce...
  • Who's in charge on this planet?
    February 4, 2010
    I think two weeks of character-building's probably enough, so this week it's time for something with a little more substance. The globalization...
  • Two Minutes for Holden
    January 20, 2010
    A reader can always tell when a columnist has struggled for a topic to go on about for 20-some inches. And usually, after several years of having to...