Profile of Gerry Phelan

All articles of Gerry Phelan

• Truly thankful
  What does turkey taste like through a feeding tube? The question might be crass if asked to a stranger, but to a good friend at Thanksgiving, ...
• Damage control
  It’s been more than three weeks since tropical storm Leslie made her unwelcome visit, and I’m still dealing with the storm. Waiting on roofers ...
• A proud port, and rightly so
  My “other wife” came to town this month. Perhaps you saw her. She was tall and majestic, and looked like something we used to dream about when we ...
• The political pile-on was shameful
  This time they got it right. I’m talking about the Dunderdale crowd, the ones who often get targeted for doing a poor job of communicating their ...
• Brace yourselves
  Oh, to be a fly on the wall at private municipal council meetings this fall. We’re in for substantial increases in our property tax assessments, ...
• Bullying season begins anew
  I was bullied. It’s not something I like to remember, but it comes back to me this time of year. The kids have only been back in school a couple ...
• Democracy needs to go high-tech
  We’ve become a portable people. BlackBerrys and iPhones, iPads and laptops are everywhere, and we’re told it will soon be even more so. I read ...
• Summer in the city stirs memories of the past
  OK, I didn't want to write about the weather, but I learned a long time ago to be thankful for what you've got and don't be afraid to say why. ...
• Minimum wage needs to be hiked
  I don’t know how they do it. I’m talking about people trying to make ends meet on the minimum wage.Ten bucks an hour doesn’t go far. There’s no ...
• Step up to help cancer research
  Sometimes we feel so helpless. A few weeks ago, a friend called and asked me for a favour, that I deliver the eulogy at his funeral. He had just ...
• Why Wednesday?
  I’m all for tradition, but if I had my way, tomorrow would be Regatta Day.This watching the weather to see if it’s a holiday in St.John’s on the ...
• Muscling down the road
  I heard the monster before I saw it. There was this explosive revving, then the roar of an engine and like a submarine rising from the ...
• Search and rescue snafu
  Are you kidding me? That was my first reaction to the latest hair-raising news concerning this province’s search and rescue capabilities, or ...
• Let’s turn up the heat on Ottawa
  A few different words would have changed the story and the headline. Premier Kathy Dunderdale has been asked several times if she regrets ...
• Dying, my way
  “You’re playing God,” a caller told me after she read my recent column on abortion. “Don’t you know you are going against your faith?” My views ...
• It ain't over till it's over
  Merv Wiseman should get a civic award for perseverance. He finished up with the Marine Rescue Sub-Centre this week, but not without firing a few ...
• Missing in action
  I hope Peter Penashue gets to read this, but I fear he won’t. He has people who do that, staff who spend hours combing through headlines from ...
• Cuts could mean setbacks for CBC
  I used to hate the CBC. I didn’t like their radio programs and had little time for anything but their television newscast.For awhile, when I ...
• Focus on the children
  "Is that God?" The question from the four-year-old girl would have been cuter had it not come in the middle of mass on a Sunday morning. ...
• Life after radio
  My mother tells me I was the third. Yes, the third of her offspring, but she means the third unexpected resignation in the past year or so. Royal ...