It would be his last Christmas on earth, he knew it, the family knew it, yet he had made it clear to them that he wanted this Christmas to be just like every Christmas.
People are joined in friendship through their foolishness. Community cannot be sustained at too high a level.
Tell Me The Old Old Story: We have read about it. We sing songs about it. We proclaim it as loud as we can.
Well, officially it is still fall, but as we all know, in Manitoba our seasons often don’t march to the precise drumbeat of the calendar.
The Manitoba Legislature begins a new session November 20th with an opening that will be slightly different than is tradition.
Recently a number of persons have referred to me as an artist of sorts after reading something I have written.
It was just a few years ago that talk show hosts across the country were expressing concern that Remembrance Day observations would become smaller events as less and less World War I and World War II veterans remained to tell the story of those conflicts.
On November 7, 2007, Samuel Golubchuk was admitted to the ICU at the Grace Hospital in Winnipeg; where his life is being sustained by a ventilator and tube feeding.
That was the sound NDP Finance Minister Greg Selinger was hearing after his meeting this week with his provincial and federal counterparts where he learned that the tap was being closed on ever increasing amounts of cash from Ottawa.
We live in a time when technologies and ideas are adapted in response not to need but to advertising, salesmanship, and fashion.
