Opinion

Each morning as I look out the window of my seniors’ residence, I think of the poem, “Working Girls,” by Carl Sandberg. He wrote from what he saw, and he saw “the working girls in the morning are going to work, long lines of them….

Every now and then someone proposes an idea so full of flaws that it thankfully does not get off the ground. Exhibit A among recent examples is the failed effort to have Calgary bid for the 2026 winter Olympics.

While viewers never seem to tire of such evergreens as It’s a Wonderful Life , A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and How The Grinch Stole Christmas , there are a few new goodies this month under the TV tree.

Every year, a clash of the seasons plays out in dollar stores across the country, as millions of useless gewgaws devoted to Halloween (skulls, skeletons, increasingly grisly zombies, et al) are crowded out by millions of equally useless Christmas dec

While viewers never seem to tire of such evergreens as It’s a Wonderful Life , A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and How The Grinch Stole Christmas , there are a few new goodies this month under the TV tree.

Every now and then someone proposes an idea so full of flaws that it thankfully does not get off the ground. Exhibit A among recent examples is the failed effort to have Calgary bid for the 2026 winter Olympics.

Every year, a clash of the seasons plays out in dollar stores across the country, as millions of useless gewgaws devoted to Halloween (skulls, skeletons, increasingly grisly zombies, et al) are crowded out by millions of equally useless Christmas dec

You’ve probably seen the commercial. Jon Hamm, the angular-jawed star of Mad Men, advertising for online food delivery service called SkipTheDishes.

If you look up the detailed platform that the New Democrats released before the 2015 election you find some interesting things.

You may have heard – or smelled – that marijuana has been legalized in Canada, and it’s come with the usual hand-wringing and celebration that any large social issue brings a nation.