I was sitting in Tims when I heard a teenage girl ask her father “Is Black Friday a holiday?”  When he assured her that Black Friday was not a holiday and that she would have to be in school she seemed puzzled as she was sure that it was.  After a little bit of back…

And here I sit preparing a funeral message for a friend.  It was just a year ago that Matt told me the doctors had discovered lesions on his spine. He was confident that it wasn’t anything to be concerned with but told me regardless of the outcome he was trusting God. And trust God Matt…

Have your read the story about the Alberta couple whose application to adopt a child has been rejected because of their beliefs? The evangelical couple has been told that even though they submitted the adoption application and passed the required courses necessary for the adoption, that they won’t be approved because of their religious views…

Authorities in Texas are stating that Sunday’s mass shooting that left 26 dead in a small Baptist church, did not appear to be religiously motivated.  Freeman Martin, the Regional Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety stated, “The massacre appeared to stem from a domestic situation.”  But he didn’t elaborate further. It seems that…

So, were they, or weren’t they?  Perhaps you’ve read the story of Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava, the Hawaiian women and their two dogs who were supposedly rescued after being stranded aboard their disabled sailboat for five months. Recent inconsistencies about their stories are now causing authorities to question the sailors account of their ordeal.…

Well, I got my DNA back the other day and I can now definitively say that I am a human being. Outside of that I think my official designation would be “mongrel”, which proudly makes me a Canadian. I’m not sure how anyone whose family has been in Canada for several generations can boast of…

So, an unidentified woman in Toronto has lodged a complaint with the Police because a cosmetic surgery procedure that she had performed had gone wrong and resulted in an infection.  It was only after she had to undergo corrective surgery that she made the complaint. And you almost feel bad for the lady until you…

They may have found Santa Claus and he’s not at the North Pole. Turkish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Saint Nick, not the Saint Nick who came down the chimney last Christmas but the Saint Nick that Saint Nick is based on. Nicholas was the bishop of Myrna in what is now Turkey…

Over 50 dead and more than 500 injured in what has been described as “The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. History.” When I was a teen that distinction was held by the University of Texas tower shootings when 16 people were killed and 31 were injured by Charles Whitman in 1966.  After fifty years…

I read an interesting article in the Halifax Metro the other day.  The title was “Euthanasia requests not met in Nova Scotia”.  The gist of the article was that of the 64 requests for assisted suicide in the first six months of this year, only 24 had been acted on.  Of the remaining 2/3’s, some…