--> I mentioned the tragedy of the weekend shooting to a friend the other day and they asked “Which one?”  I was referring to the massacre in Orlando but my friend had a point.Hardly a day goes by without the report of another fatal shooting south of the boarder. The outrage over the Orlando shooting…

--> “Death with dignity” or “Physician assisted suicide”, you can call it what you will but it is now a reality in Canada.  While our elected representatives have struggled to put together a law that would benefit the most and harm the least, the deadline imposed by the Supreme Court has come and gone.  The…

The other day I attended the funeral of a lady I had known for over forty years.  During my teen years,Mary Thomas was the mother of my best friend and my second mom.  I am sure that there were times that I was at the Thomas house more than I was at the Guptill house. …

I saw a headline awhile back that said, “The Global eradication of Polio” and my first thought was, “I didn’t know there was a movement to eradiation Polo. Maybe it has something to do with the way they treat the ponies.”  Seriously, I am not making this up. And then I realized the article was…

Selfies are nothing new and certainly nothing out of the ordinary.  But what about a selfie taken at 182 Kilometers per hour?  Last summer, Christal McGee of Georgia was involved in an accident while taking a selfie using the Snapchat speed filter, which posts your speed in your selfie.  While trying to drive and take…

They want to know who we are and they aren’t content to simply asking Google or Facebook they are asking, or telling, us to give them the details.  Did you take the time to fill out your census form this past week?  Ours was relatively short, thus why it was called the short form &…

--> --> I love the history of the Wesleyan church.  Born out of the abolitionist movement of the early 1800’s, our founders saw a distinct connection between holiness and social justice.  That desire for equality and justice carried over into the suffragette and women’s rights movement and continues today as Wesleyans around fight the battle…

“Canada does not and will not pay ransom to terrorist, directly or indirectly.”  Those were the words of Prime Minister Trudeau after Canadian John Ridsdel was murdered in the Philippines this week.  Ridsdel was kidnapped in September and the Islamic terrorist group Abu Sayyaf demanded a ransom for his safe release, a ransom the Canadian…

This month we’ve been talking about Legacy, what we leave behind, in memories and money.  Vladimir Lenin has left behind a legacy that he probably wasn’t intending to; an ongoing bill. Ever since his death in 1924, Lenin’s body has been on display in Moscow.  It was recently revealed that the annual cost to keep…

Last month we laid to rest one of Canada’s best loved and most respected politicians, or at least that is how it would appear.  It was a little confusing.  If you had been asleep for the past 18 months, or perhaps a visitor from Mars, then the outpouring of praise at Rob Ford’s funeral might not…