My Definition of Romantic
My husband did something very romantic for me yesterday. Here is a picture of it. …
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Searching for Sheron Alton
A reader of this blog is on a quest and I’m asking for your help on his behalf. …
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My New Favourite Band
Sons of Sylvia is composed of three brothers who have backed up Carrie Underwood for years. As The Clark Brothers, Adam, Ashley and Austin won a reality show contest called The Next Great American Band and they’ve broken off on their own now after the name change. They continue to perform with Carrie, too. …
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The Buxbaum Legacy
Back in 1984 when Komoka resident Hanna Buxbaum was dragged from her car on the 402 and shot to death, it horrified the entire region. I was working at London radio station CKSL at the time and can recall the shock and horror at such a terrible crime against one of the city’s pillar families. …
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Why Tim Hortons Accepting Debit is Real News
What is and isn’t news? This is the grey-coloured question that pecks at the journalism profession every day. …
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Tis the Season – or is it?
The other day we discussed the topic of when the holiday season starts. I believe someone I live with may have been telling a particularly holly and jolly TV commercial to go and have an impossible experience with itself to which I replied, once we’ve had the parade, the season is on. …
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Hey Toronto – Cut It Out!
Toronto has this annoying habit of thinking it’s the centre of the universe, or at the very least, the only market that matters in Canada. …
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Comfy Shoe, Please Come Home
Our trip to Lachine is complete, our family mission accomplished with good results. We went, we ate and we laughed – a lot. But something a little strange happened. I lost a shoe. …
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A Little Road Trip
I’m going to be out of the routine for a while; out of the province until Sunday and then on different shifts at work. …
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The Highest Form of Flattery…or a Case for a Lawsuit?
Lady Antebellum is one of the biggest groups on the planet right now. They are a country trio that crossed over to pop and had a smash hit with the song Need You Now. …
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Where There’s a Will
I am anti-Will Kit. Sure, it seems like a good idea to avoid an expensive  lawyer and write the thing yourself until you hear the horror stories of people who didn’t know the proper lingo and left their heirs to battle the government – or each other – over their estates. …
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Thank You, Officers
Shots were fired in a neighbourhood not far from ours last week. Two houses were struck by bullets and a dark sedan was seen leaving the area. …
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I (Don’t) Love a Parade!
It may very well be because I don’t have kids that I don’t get into the whole parade thing. If I were taking a child to a parade, well, I’d stake out a prime viewing spot and wait as long as it took to see the fat man in the red suit go gliding past. I suppose that’s why people do it. But frankly I’d just like to see the the whole thing reduced to the one float – Santa’s – and be done with all of the anticipation. Then again I haven’t submitted my list to the big guy this year so I’m not so excited about seeing him, I guess!  …
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No More Amazon.com For Me
I thought maybe it was a sick joke but it’s not. I checked it out myself.  Amazon.com not only sold a guide for pedophiles, it stood by that offering in the face of rampant criticism. …
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An Anti-Bullying Rant That (Sadly) Still Holds Up
Rick Mercer has joined an anti-bullying campaign called It Gets Better. It’s aimed at gay kids who are being – let’s call it what it is – tortured at school because they’re different.  Some celebrities were inspired to start speaking out after the suicides of gay teens who were bullied. …
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The Wrath of Peggys Cove
The small Nova Scotia fishing village of Peggys Cove (no apostrophe) has been a tourist attraction for decades but its popularity exploded with the demise of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998. The iconic lighthouse, the charming and rather huge gift shop and the jagged rocks on the shore are must-sees for Halifax visitors who have a couple of hours to drive southwest to St. Margarets Bay. …
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