Holy, holy, holy

I remember this like it happened this morning. I was 17. My girlfriend Dory and i were walking in a park near my home in Montreal’s west island. It was after supper, the fall evening warm and at that stage just before darkness. The boards of the hockey rinks had already been set up, waiting [...]

A 5-cent story

A woman drives to work in Montreal, on a day like any other. At an intersection near her apartment she stops at a red light and a squeegee kid approaches the car and cleans the windshield. He’s in his late teens, maybe early twenties, and though he looks a little rough around the edges he [...]

Spook Country

I recently bought and read seminal Vancouver author William Gibson’s latest, Spook Country. Gibson is one of the few authors i make a point of following. S.C.’s a good read, if a little gearhead and plodding — the man’s a fanatic for detail, too much detail. But he still has a hawk’s eye for [...]

Feel good about politics

I know i really shouldn’t be posting forwarded-email junk, but i can’t resist just this once.
Want to feel better about things? Want to start each day with a positive outlook?

Fire up your computer and open a new file.
Save it with the name “Stephen Harper”.
Send it to the Recycle Bin.
Your PC will ask, Do you really [...]