The Telegram

I’m up for the argument: tell me, why should handguns even be sold in this country? More to the point, instead of arguing, I’m more than willing to listen to a side of the debate that, right now, I just can’t seem ...

I watched a beaver swim up a narrow brook about 10 feet in front of me on Sunday while I ate a sandwich. Saw a small covey of young grouse scatter, and then freeze in place, shape-shifting into invisibility. Fell off a slippery fallen tree trunk and ...

I’d truly glad that the really stupid things I’ve done haven’t been recorded for posterity. I mean, some things have been recorded: I’ve occasionally appeared in the background of someone else’s iPhone video, and ...

It’s just one of all those things that no one really can tell you. The things you’re destined to learn — to really learn — for yourself. Two days from the end of June, and I was on the edge of a huge field under the hot ...

Just right now, it’s the best time of the year to play plant detective. I don’t mean it’s a great time of the year to spot plants you might not be familiar with, because they happen to be flowering now. No, it’s more ...

What’s fair for the goose is fair for the gander, right? Well, unless the goose is the Canada Revenue Agency. Then, sometimes, the gander has to go to court to try and get fair treatment. This is the story of a taxpayer who ran afoul ...

Dear technology whiz kids: thank you all so very much for fixing that thing that wasn’t broken. I know that this thank you doesn’t seem very sincere. That’s because it wasn’t. I’m the first to admit that, in terms ...

If there’s one thing the Muskrat Falls inquiry is pretty darned good at showing us, it’s that governments and government agencies that tout transparency and accountability have developed a curious view about what that actually ...

Cheers to hard decisions. Right in the middle of downtown Winnipeg is The Forks, a downtown park of shops, food, outdoor entertainment and craft beer, hugging the edge of the Assiniboine River just before it joins the Red River. And The Forks ...

When a government trumpets that it’s “open for business,” you might want to stop and look at just what’s on the auction block. A month ago, I wrote an editorial for the Telegram about how a U.S. decision to sell off a block ...