The Beetle and the Feedback
September 12, 2010 The valleys of the Interior of British Columbia are like slashes in the earth’s skin — deep, steep, dramatic, falling precipitously into dark, narrow lakes. The landscape looks like...
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September 19, 2010 I pushed the shovel into the earth, lifted it and swung it to one side. MacTavish pounced on the hole and began digging furiously. He backed off as I took another shovelful, then...
View ArticleTim O’Neill’s Can Opener
September 26, 2010 A venerable joke places a physicist, a chemist and an economist on a desert island. They’re starving. A can of soup washes ashore. They have no can-opener. The physicist says, “Let’s...
View ArticleDayenu: Losing Irving Schwartz
October 3, 2010 “We have a useful expression in Hebrew, Dayenu,” said Ron Caplan. Tall, grizzled and warm, Ron is the publisher of Breton Books in Wreck Cove, Cape Breton. “It means, ‘it would have...
View ArticleThe 10% Solution
At its best, British humour — the Monty Python dead parrot sketch, for instance — is almost unbearably funny. At its worst, British humour is flat, vulgar, and nasty. An example of that? The video...
View ArticleThe Forest and the Trees
SUNDAY HERALD COLUMN – October 17, 2010 [HH1035] THE FOREST AND THE TREES by Silver Donald Cameron Which is more important, the forest or the trees? The trees, say the forest corporations. The forest,...
View ArticleThe Forests of the Crown
October 24, 2010 Steve Talbot is right, I’m not a forester. I stand before you naked and disqualified. Steve Talbot is the executive director of the Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia. He...
View ArticleThe Perfect Lunch
October 24, 2010 The autumn light slants in across the marshes, strikes the glittering surface of the slow little river, bounces through tall windows, and flares up into amber, red and gold in the five...
View ArticleWithin Sight of Shore
November 7, 2010 At 6:30 AM on April 16, 1945, HMCS Esquimalt was patrolling the eastern approaches to Halifax Harbour while a sister ship, HMCS Sarnia, cruised westward towards Sambro. They were...
View ArticleI’m phasing out this blog…
Hi, everyone: I’m phasing out this blog, and concentrating all my efforts — including my Sunday columns — on the blog at The Green Interview, which will soon become my only blog. I hope you’ll move...
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