I try to learn something new every day. Often that information isn’t actually sought out by me. It just arrives at my door and falls into my lap. It is most welcome. Recently our family – being me and wife Judy, our three sons and their families – sat down to salt beef, potatoes, cabbage, […]
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This month George Chuvalo heard the Great Referee count to 10. That means, in the strange language of boxing, the former Canadian heavyweight champion died. He was 89. George was the best Canadian heavyweight of all-time. In his last days he suffered from dementia but for most of his life he was “sharp as a […]
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Jim Furlong reflects on the damaging storm of 1846.
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A story today from the fairly distant past in news terms. I touched on this more than a decade ago. It begins with a question, and I doubt that you will you know the answer. Name the only British Dominion in recorded history where the people voted their nation completely out of existence? The correct […]
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I spent a lot of time on the anniversary of 9/11 watching TV videos of the awful events of that day of 25 years ago. I gave some time recently in a piece for the NTV Evening News explaining how in the early hours of September 11, 2001, in our newsroom in St. John’s, as […]
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