Lately I’m having trouble taking the news seriously. Perhaps you’d care to join me. Click here to read the rest.

When it rains in northeastern France, to this day, bits and pieces of the First World War come to the surface. And to this day, people collect them, clean then, exhibit them and honour them. Remembrance does not fade with the passing years. Click here to read the rest.

It’s very nice to come to France and have my preconceptions confirmed. Non, non, don’t look at me like that. I mean in a good way. Click here to read the rest.

Easter is about death and resurrection. Also you get little candy eggs because life should be fun. But it is fitting that it was on Easter 1917, rising from the grotesque mass slaughter of the First World War, that Canada became a nation at Vimy Ridge. Click here to read the rest.

Heartbleed scares me. Internet weaknesses really are big news, unlike a lot of things that get headlines. So our reaction scares me even more. Click here to read the rest.

With Vladimir Putin drooling over the rest of Ukraine the plan seems to be to stick our tongues out at him. Laden with sententious rhetoric, to be sure. But we can’t shake our fist at him because we haven’t got one. Click here to read the rest.

With the PQ dusting off their threat to take their province and go straight home, I find myself dusting off some reflections from the last referendum crisis that still seem relevant. Including that people’s obsession with “Will Quebec go?” and “Should Quebec go?” should not stop us from giving some thought to the fact that, if it does go, it won't go far. Click here to read the rest.

You know what I think we need in Crimea? Batman, that’s what. Dana nana nana nana… No, wait. It might be too much for him. We should get the whole Justice League or whatever that one is that had the Green Lantern. I always thought he was extra-cool. Click here to read the rest.