By Pauline Kerr American politics has provided Canadians with a welcome distraction from COVID-19. A good many of us viewed the presidential election, and its bizarre aftermath, with the … Continue reading Democracy has been challenged →

By Pauline Kerr   It is the dawn of a new year, 2021, and we hope it will be better than the old one, the year a problem too small … Continue reading Thoughts on an unprecedented year of COVID-19 →

By Pauline Kerr Santa Claus certainly has a lot of elves and other helpers – bravo to them all! There are the elves who decided that kids deserved holiday fun. … Continue reading Three cheers for the elves →

By Pauline Kerr   Christmas came early, with approval by Health Canada for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. It marked the official start to what will become the largest vaccination campaign … Continue reading Vaccine offers hope for future Christmases →

By Pauline Kerr On Dec. 6, 1989, an angry, well-armed man entered École Polytechnique in Montreal and methodically hunted down and murdered 14 women over the course of 20 minutes. In … Continue reading The killing has to stop →

By Pauline Kerr Despite all the gloom and doom out there, many of us have managed to weather the pandemic fairly well, so far. We have kept our jobs (or … Continue reading Sharing good fortune a great way to celebrate Christmas 2020 →

By Pauline Kerr There is an ancient Chinese curse: May you always live in interesting times. That certainly describes life with COVID-19. We seem to have lost the “We are … Continue reading We can all win by shopping local →

By Pauline Kerr A lot of Canadians watched the recent – and apparently ongoing – American presidential election. First, it provided an entertaining alternative to COVID-19, and second, the result … Continue reading We hope for coordinated action against COVID-19 →

By Pauline Kerr John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields, was written during a particularly dark part of the First World War. On May 3, 1915, he had just buried a … Continue reading Lest we forget →

By Pauline Kerr Back in the time when history was spoken, not written, seeing the days grow shorter was surely a frightening experience. The changing of the seasons was a … Continue reading Halloween is the scariest time of the year →