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A year slips by so quickly. In some ways, many things are still discouraging - our federal government seems determined to make it hard for one to be proud to be a Canadian.  A mayoral election where the incumbent has dropped out due to health reasons, only to have his brother step in to the election - neither of which are candidates to be proud of.  A conservative candidate who has taken over the lead from the progressive candidate - the conservative a perpetual ne'er-do-well who seems mostly to look favourable after the train wreck of the incumbent. Having said that, by the standards of most of the world we're still pretty fortunate.  This

A new year, winter at last has retreated. Political changes - a municipal election campaign, with the incumbent mayor possibly finally self-destructing to the point where even his most ardent followers won't vote for him.  A provincial election imminent, where a new premier is tarred with her predecessor's failings, a conservative leader that is not trusted (including by his own party supporters), the NDP leader triggering the election despite the governing party espousing a budget that her party could have penned. On top of that, a federal government that is not to be trusted and has been running attack ads against their opposition despite

Some of you may be wondering a bit - tomorrow (October 14th) is the official Thanksgiving holiday here in Canada.  Although it is a statutory holiday, so the date for it was chosen rather than evolved, it reflects the fact that the end of the growing season comes a little earlier here in "The Great White North", as the brothers Bob and Doug would have it. Some parts of the country have already had snow.  Where I live in the more southerly climes I've seen the progression in the local produce at the St. Lawrence Market over the weeks of summer.  There have been the local blueberries, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, melons and mo