Ask anybody around the world about long-running TV shows and titles like The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, CSI, Law and Order, M*A*S*H, General Hospital, Coronation Street, Doctor… Read more “Canada 1972: The Beachcombers”

A scan of RPM’s Canadian singles chart for 1972 suggests that the year I was born wasn’t necessarily a big one for Canadian musicians, despite the launch… Read more “Canada 1972: Frank Mills – Tickling The Ivories and Breaking The Rules”

I was three days old when Paul Henderson scored The Goal. There aren’t many Canadians of a certain age that don’t know about The Goal. For Canadians… Read more “Canada 1972: The Goal”

Some of you might find it cliché or stereotypical that the winter plays into my earliest memory of life in Canada. But I can’t deny it: The… Read more “Canada 1972: Opening My Eyes To Snow”

Perhaps it only makes sense that I’m writing my first blog post minutes before 2017 – Canada’s sesquicentennial year – arrives in my province of Nova Scotia. I’m… Read more “Happy New Year, Canada!”