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My Name is Osei (part one)
The following short work of fiction written by our regular author, George Burden, won third prize in The George Elliott Clarke Literary Competition in the 1998/1999 season. It now appears here on Life...
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My Name is Osei (part two)
The following short work of fiction written by our regular author, George Burden, won third prize in The George Elliott Clarke Literary Competition in the 1998/1999 season. It now appears here on Life...
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My Name is Osei (part three)
The following short work of fiction written by our regular author, George Burden, won third prize in The George Elliott Clarke Literary Competition in the 1998/1999 season. It now appears here on Life...
View ArticleTexas Oil Companies Don’t Want Canada To Build Pipelines
The Americans are not strangers to a foreign country interfering with their internal affairs. Nobody was very happy with the Russian involvement in their last presidential election. Yet American oil...
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How to Become a Ceann Tighe (Scottish Chieftain)
A Ceann tighe is the head of a large branch of a Scottish clan or tribe, and the term (in case your Scottish Gaelic is a little rusty) translates as chieftain. Some of the larger clans have had a...
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CORONAVIRUS: A Little Inspiration
As a physician with forty years of practice in Nova Scotia I have never experienced a pandemic of this extent. However it is not a new phenomenon. From the biblical plagues of Egypt, the Black Death...
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Massacre
The mournful skirling of bagpipes sounds on the television for the vigil which marks the tragic death of 22 neighbours and friends. In Nova Scotia the death of 22 individuals marks us all. Few of us...
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The Reluctant Sniper
The guide to our cavern tour in Slovenia looked me over, chuckled and said somewhat sarcastically, “I’m glad to see you are prepared.” I had joined a group of various other nationalities who were...
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The Crown’s Perspective
It seems to have become fashionable to compare the reign of England’s first Elizabeth as the dawning of a Golden Age for England, while the reign of our current Elizabeth, II is supposed to have...
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The New Rubicon
In 49 BC Julius Caesar led the 13th Legion across the Rubicon, a small river in northern Italy. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the end of a several hundred year old democracy, the Roman...
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