• Should Canadians have a winter holiday?

  March 10, 2010 - 5 h 00

  Here's one opinion of the Canadian winter as noted in 1768 by the French philosopher Voltaire: "France lost in one day . . . fifteen hundred leagues of ground. These fifteen hundred leagues being a frozen desert, are perhaps not really a loss....

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• There's a definite sense of magic in the community of Midgic

  February 10, 2010 - 6 h 00

  "Today a sometime wind/ spelling small lessons along the line/ a day of warmth over Midgic/ a gift for all residents all afternoon. . . " - Douglas Lochhead, Midgic, 1997 Upon occasion, this column has focused on rural communities in...

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• Looking Into Trees attracting widespread attention

  January 13, 2010 - 6 h 00

  "You understand?/sure you understand./ Everything is poetry." -Douglas Lochhead in Weathers: Poems New and Selected. At first glance, today's topic Looking Into Trees may appear unusual. However, when I explain that it is the title of a book -...

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• Sharing some highlights of the year 1909

  December 30, 2009 - 6 h 00

  On the Dying of the Year: "The winds are whispering low their dirges drear,/ Sobbing and sighing in a sad lament. /And all the clouds of heaven seem hither sent/ To watch around the deathbed of the year." - Sir Charles G. D. Roberts As the year...

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• He's making a list, he's checking it twice . . .

  December 23, 2009 - 6 h 00

  Yes, I do believe that right about now Santa Claus is making his list and checking it twice, and whether I've been naughty or nice is not the question right now. The big concern is, how will I possibly be ready for Christmas by Christmas Eve? OK,...

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• Exploring the lights and sounds of Christmas

  December 16, 2009 - 6 h 00

  A lovely thing about Christmas is that it is compulsory, like thunder, and we all go through it together! -Radio broadcaster and journalist Garrison Keillor. If you think about it, the first Christmas began with a light . . . that memorable and...

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• Just whats behind that boundary line?

  December 2, 2009 - 6 h 00

  New Brunswick is a province of contradictions; of old world nostalgia and new world attitudes; of lost causes and new hopes, of Harvard refinement and lumberjack crudity. -Arthur R. M. Lower in Canadians In The Making...

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• What's in a place name? Part two

  November 18, 2009 - 6 h 00

  An examination of the place names of the Tantramar region leads to the conclusion that they encompass, in the broadest of outlines, an historical and cultural road map of this area. Today's Flashback continues the survey (begun on Nov., 4) of a...

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• Whats in a place name? Part one

  November 4, 2009 - 6 h 00

  The word "toponymy" will not be familiar to many readers of this column. Its meaning is straightforward - the historical study of place names. Whether it be Aulac, Malden or Westcock, how often have you heard the question: "I wonder how or why...

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• There is definitely "something" in the autumn

  October 21, 2009 - 6 h 00

  Today's column was inspired in part by the poem An Autumn Song, composed by New Brunswick poet Bliss Carman (1861-1929). Its opening lines are as follows: " There is something in the Autumn that is native to my blood,/ Touch of manner, hint of...

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