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Edith and Carl Sandberg: Kindred spirits?

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….

Let us give thanks that these proposals flopped

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.
Your handy guide to all the Christmas specials

Your handy guide to all the Christmas specials

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.
The ballad of the Headless Elf, and other tree stories

The ballad of the Headless Elf, and other tree stories

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
Your handy guide to all the Christmas specials

Your handy guide to all the Christmas specials

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.

Let us give thanks that these proposals flopped

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.
Ballad of the Headless Elf, and other tree stories

Ballad of the Headless Elf, and other tree stories

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
On the menu this month: food delivery apps

On the menu this month: food delivery apps

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

No party has answers for toughest questions

If you look up the detailed platform that the New Democrats released before the 2015 election you find some interesting things.
Hey, folks. Don't get too hot about pot

Hey, folks. Don't get too hot about pot

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.