Monthly Archives: December 2019

Artificial Christmas trees unclear on the concept

I read a newspaper story a some months back about the movement to boost the sales of real Christmas trees. I hadn’t known real trees were in need of boosting. I was shocked to learn that almost everybody but us (and everyone we know) has a fake one. 75-80 per cent is what the AP […]

December 19, 2019 – 3:03 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)

Organized crime north and south of the border

“When you know there are babies tied in a car seat that are burning because of some twisted evil that’s in this world, it’s just hard to cope with that,” ( –a cousin of the victims quoted in the New York Times story on the recent cartel massacre in northern Mexico of six children and […]

December 5, 2019 – 2:21 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)