As a newspaper reader, and an old-school newspaperman, it saddens me to hear that the Edmonton Journal will no longer publish a Sunday edition. Having a newspaper to read every day is part of my DNA, and ever since the Journal added a Sunday paper — to much fanfare and great success — starting off […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
The city of Edmonton continued its arena tease last week, releasing the latest renderings of the new hockey pleasure palace. It took exactly one day before it was declared “world class” by the typically rapturous coverage of the Edmonton Journal. Of course, anything built in Edmonton these days is immediately dubbed “world class”; apparently “Canadian […]
This Mother’s Day will mark the 27th straight without a mother to celebrate. That’s almost half my life without a mother, and you’d think that the memories of her would have faded, pushed aside by all that has happened to my life since she passed away. But it hasn’t; I can still see her face, […]
“That Rev. Lovejoy displeases me. I think I’ll give him a canker sore.” — God, as spoken to Homer Simpson, in “Homer the Heretic” If you’ve never had a canker sore, this line from The Simpsons may elicit, at best, a mild chuckle, or […]
