“Perceptions,” by Gerry Warner Op-Ed Commentary God bless America! If 34 counts of guilty don’t please you it’s time to talk to a shrink. But Donald…
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A new and different view of America
Book Review By Derryll White Box, C.J. (2013). The Highway. C.J. Box has made his mark with Joe Pickett, iconoclastic game warden and solver of…
There ain’t no easy way out
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb I want to be sad. Just heard that Tom Petty has died; age 66, sounds like a heart thing. Makes…
Border crossings remain open to rats
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb Have you ever been waiting in a really long line at a border crossing and had someone(s) cut into the…
Softwood dispute all about American whine
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb Canada has always been different from America in that the bottom line is not the final line. Canadians have tended…
A book well worth reading
Book Review By Derryll White Ferrigno, Robert (2006). Prayers for the Assassin. I have liked everything I have read of Robert Ferrigno’s. Having said that,…
Sexual preference, like religion, clouds politics
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb Can anyone out there remember wackier times when it comes to politics? Most political observers of even the most occasional…
WTF America?
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb Okay, America, that’s enough. Enough of this blithering farcical circus you call a presidential election campaign. As a neighbour who…
A sick and twisted time
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb I’m feeling a bit like Chicken Little. “The sky is falling; the sky is falling!” It’s a trap columnists or…
How Canadian kids helped the war effort
By Elinor Florence When the Second World War raged around the planet, how were children protected from the horrors? The short answer: they weren’t. Canadian kids…