Beyond the Rhetoric

While American Thanksgiving isn’t until next month, they are celebrating Columbus Day today. Canadians have our Turkey Day today, but I don’t have an epic feast this year. In any case, I am taking it easy for the rest of the day and I encourage you to do the same. We all need a break [...]

With Christmas coming this weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to designate this week’s speedlink as the festive edition. Whether or not you have stockings hung by the chimney with care, you should enjoy some of the blog posts that I’m highlighting today. Cheers. Tyler Ingram starts us off with his recent Whistler day [...]

To all my neighbours in the United States, I’d like to wish a very happy Thanksgiving. We had our Turkey Day in Canada last month, but many of the traditions are very similar between the two countries. For example, we both tend to carve up a big honking turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Have you ever [...]

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In [...]

Thanksgiving might not be happening in the United States until next month, but Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of every October. It is during this time that we can give thanks for the many blessings we have received in the preceding year and for the many more blessings to come. You might [...]