Author Archives: James Joyce

I was astounded at the response to Sandra Lauzon’s “Country Bumpkin” letter in the Christmas issue of the Glengarry News. Who knew that, to get a reaction in these parts, all one had to do is insult one’s readers. Good ... Read more »

At Friday’s Dunvegan Recreation Association Potluck and AGM, I was reminded of the folk-style antiwar song Pete Seeger wrote in 1955: Where have all the flowers gone. He must have done a pretty good job of capturing the folk genre, ... Read more »

Thanks go to Allan Walker from Dunvegan East for drawing my attention to a small, but ominous, item in last week’s Glengarry News. Fifteen years ago, Allan and I, along with many other concerned Dunveganites, opposed Cornwall Gravel’s application to ... Read more »

Despite approximating Monty Python’s ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ spoof, our new federal Ministry of Middle Class Prosperity is frighteningly real and completely irrelevant. By all accounts the middle class (and, of course, “those working hard to join it,” as the annoying government trope ... Read more »