When I was eighteen all I wanted to do was draw cartoons and be a photographer. Few other things interested me with the exception of...

This little story was told to me some fifty years ago, by whom I can’t even remember, and has stuck with me ever since. An older...

Forget about shrinkflation, slumpflation, stagflation, good old regular inflation, or any other “flation.” What’s occurring around the...

Most of us have been to a horseracing track or seen a race on TV. Wagering at these races is based on an odds system, the underpinnings...

At around 24, I worked on various projects after leaving my job as assistant advertising manager at Atlas Copco Canada. I also lived with...

Back in the late eighties, magazines, real ones printed on actual paper, were entering their last great decade of popularity. City...

My father had the habit of taking me to the woods from an early age. Six years old, to be precise. Back then, one didn’t have to drive...

My birthday fell on the same day as my mother’s and my maternal grandmother’s, which someone once told me the odds for were quite long...

Like so many others, my first job was a summer job. As I was heavily interested in photography, I would go to Simon’s Cameras, Montreal’s...

The devastating effects of self-serve check-out systems at supermarkets. I occasionally take a few minutes after doing my weekly...

For the last 20 or so years of his working life, my dad sold trucks. Big trucks. Big International Harvester trucks to be specific. In...

When I was nine years old and my folks had been divorced for a few years, my mother and I lived in an old apartment building on Gatineau...

The year was 1967 when Montreal was host to Expo 67, the international world fair. I was thirteen, and both my father and mother smoked...

I've spent a lifetime of work in marketing communications and publishing, traveling, clubbing, concerts, fine wining and dining, outdoor...

Let me start by stating that there is no guaranteed system when it comes to wagering on horse racing. Betting on horse racing can be...

Everyone knows the gas-powered automobile has heard its death knell loud and clear. So the oil companies are staging a full-frontal...

A few times a year, back in the eighties, we’d all go down for family gatherings of various sizes to the Howard family camp at Breeches...

My dad was a very stern individual. Once in the great outdoors though he relaxed a bit but remained a strict man. As I grew into my late...

Back starting in the nineteen sixties my father and I would religiously go fishing and hunting for 5 to 6 weeks starting in early August...

Back in the sixties, in cases of separation, custody was given to the mother. That continues to a large extent today, from what I...