You still have time! This year marks the sixth time I’ve participated in the Great Cycle Challenge to help fight children’s cancer. And as luck would have it, this is the hottest cycling season I’ve ever experienced. On Friday, 8 August, I rode 20.5 km, through the Green Belt around Ottawa, past the “Burnt Lands,” […]
You cannot deny Trump’s enthrallment any more I don’t know how to express the depth of my disappointment and disgust with the display in the Oval Office today. It reminded me of nothing less than a doddering, wilfully uninformed grandfather lecturing his grandson about the younger man’s ingratitude for the revocation of his inheritance. Meanwhile, […]
The problem with lies from Trump or other authoritarian leaders is that others believe them, or worse, act as if they believe the lies. That’s why we see people like US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revising his statements on Ukraine because they contradicted his president’s previous lie. It was so refreshing, so uplifting to […]
It started as a normal day. In the afternoon, I took Daisy to the dog park, where she romped around with a dozen other dogs as the dog servants and poop-scoopers chatted. From time to time, a whirl of dogs would eddy around my legs, then whirl away. Then it happened: something or somethings collided […]
Five companies control more than 80 percent of Canada’s grocery/food market. Five companies dominate global high technology. Three social media companies have destroyed traditional media and now dominate news and social discourse. Not to mention spreading misinformation. The United States has the largest military in the world—more than the next 10 countries combined. The next […]
I am trying my hand at producing videos for YouTube to promote my podcast, Beyond Barbarossa. For an upcoming episode, I recorded a Zoom interview with Roger Moorhouse, author of seven books on the Second World War. We talked about one of them, The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941, and about its subject, […]
In honour of Remembrance Day, also called Veterans’ Day and Armistice Day, here is an excerpt, part of a World War II soldier’s account of the reality of being a prisoner of the nazis. This excerpt came from Army of Worn Soles: Volume 1 of the Eastern Front Trilogy, the true story of a Canadian […]