To my Dear Readers: I could think of nothing more appropriate than these words below–penned by Longfellow, as I thumbed through a favorite anthology of poems and short stories late last night. Thank you for your wonderful wishes, both on this blog’s comment section and privately by email. I’m sorry I won’t be able to [...]

I’m sorry, off the top, I know many of you are pushing for me to deliver more stories, particularly those with more revelations on ‘Basi-Virk’ but it’s not going to happen any more swiftly, regardless of prompting, so please be patient. I’m tired, it’s been a very good run, again, this year and I need [...]

In the latter part of the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Atticus is resigned to the fact that his arguments in support of Tom’s undeniable innocence have failed–as the all white jury convicts an innocent black man, despite clear evidence to the contrary. He folds legal briefs into a [...]

I’m going to make this quick simply because I need to upgrade servers AGAIN, and I’m not sure how long I’ll be on again. 37,000 of you were reading the Kieran pieces at once, along with another 55 who were scouring all the ‘Basi-Virk’ pieces, including the BC Government server which spent 18 hours straight [...]

The much-maligned President Bush II, committed and delivered a truly staggering, though highly commendable $15,000,000,000 in AIDS funding to Africa beginning in 2003 and ending in 2008. In just those five years, the President was responsible for spearheading the dramatic reduction in suffering on the African continent. But that wasn’t enough. So, in his own [...]

I was privileged to attend my pal Rafe Mair’s birthday roast last night. It was a truly eclectic mix of about 200 media personalities, politicians and Rafe fans. He was feted by friends and colleagues, led by the incomparable Shiral Tobin, who was hysterically funny and terribly endearing as host. In no particular order: Damien [...]

It’s been said and written enough over the course of our history, that our sons and daughters were, and remain, of the bravest fighting souls the world has ever known. Mattered, as it very much did to any of our allies, Canada has delivered freedom and justice with gallantry and purpose since time immemorial. I [...]

I do not admire Bill Gates much. I find him rather aloof and terribly arrogant. Warren Buffet is much more than a tad hypocritical when he calls for increased taxes on the wealthy while his decade long argument with the IRS is a legal battle of attrition. Paul Allen is more my speed. But I [...]

You just knew I had to do it. I’m a masochist. I had to, it was inevitable. I couldn’t help myself. I braved the Art Gallery grounds where the smell of pot and body odor permeated the air driving passers by to wince and gag. This was between the afternoon and into the late evening [...]

The premise seems impossible, but it happened. A woman who previously thought she’d never be a mother, becomes very much pregnant and discovers she’s also dealing with aggressive cancer. Instead of chemotherapy, which likely would have saved her life–but could have certainly damaged the fetus, she elects to die so her baby would have the [...]