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UC Chimes: Why and how?

A couple of weeks ago, Peter Mansbridge, the anchor of CBC National TV News, had an one to one interview with Chris Hadfield who has been on the space shuttle. It was very excited to watch the program.

Old wineskins and the year of faith

A little girl is sitting on her grandpa's lap, studying his face. She gets up the nerve to rub her fingers over the wrinkles. Then she touches her own face and looks more puzzled.

It was written

I've begun reaming out my office. It's not that there's a lot of trash and I do keep the wastebasket emptied on a regular basis, it's just I find it hard to part with the somewhere around fifteen hundred articles I've had published.

UC Chimes: Who's gonna be responsible?

At a presbytery meeting, a person complained, "it is too hot here!" An elderly lady said, "people complain no matter what!" People complain either its too hot or too cold.

On our pilgrim journey sometimes we need more wine

Three days after calling Andrew, Peter, Philip and Nathanial to be disciples, Jesus took them to a wedding at Cana. They were all invited. In the Aramaic language the word for wedding feast had the same root as the word drink.

UC Chimes: Spring will surely come

The last couple of weeks have been really cold. There has been almost 30C degrees difference between here, Carlyle (-23C) and Toronto (+12C). It was good for me to taste what a Saskatchewan winter is like.

Watch your opponent

Hubbie and I have enjoyed board game competition for all our married life and over the years we've established a most pleasurable routine. Name it, we've probably played it.

Pause for Reflection: More than a flash of light

"They [our mothers] give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more" (from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot). How sad an outlook on life this line presents.
Hometown ceremony held to honour T.C. Douglas

Hometown ceremony held to honour T.C. Douglas

Officials gather at the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland to hold a ceremonial tribute to native son Thomas Clement Douglas, recently named as The Greatest Canadian in a CBC contest.
Huge crowds take in unveiling of statue

Huge crowds take in unveiling of statue

At a key moment, as if on cue for the cameras, the sun came out as actor Kiefer Sutherland stood beside the newly-unveiled statue of his grandfather Tommy Douglas, and holding the statue's outstretched hand, he declared, "I've waited a long time to h
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