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A Canadian flag is presented to the municipal head, or Provost, of Falkirk, the place where T.C. Douglas was born in Scotland, as part of a ceremony paying tribute to Douglas held there in October.

Canada Post has issued a stamp to honour the late Tommy Douglas, "the Greatest Canadian", the father of universal medicare in Canada.

According to a survey for Christians titled "What is the most tempting thing in your life?" Food was the number one temptation among Christians. Food, temptation to eat too much was the number 1 ranked temptation.

Not only are there dozens of kinds of filters (maybe hundreds but I'm guessing with caution), a filter can be a noun or a verb.

Wouldn't it be grand if we could have Christmas every day? For kids from one to ninety four? Let's! If the world of commerce can bombard us from Thanksgiving to the non-ending Boxing Day sales, why can't we hold the baby Jesus a little longer in our

It is already the second week of January. Time goes by really fast. When I met my friends and relatives in Brampton, Ontario, during Christmas break, I shook their hands. Of course sometimes I hug them too.

Ah, the power of the penny. Since in Canada the production and distribution of the common penny is coming to an end, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how this will affect individuals and businesses.

Why can't atheists solve exponential equations? Because they don't believe in higher powers. How do you describe a schizophrenic Zen Buddhist? A man who is at two with the universe.

Well, the hype of the season is past and the reality of another year faces us. After typing and deleting a dozen or so sentences exhorting myself and you, my readers, to look back over 2012 I eliminated them all.

Says the Master to his pupil: "Do you understand that you don't really exist?" Upon which the pupil replies: "To whom are you telling that?" When we stop to reflect we realize that our happiness is related to conscious awareness of aspects of our liv