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A story called home

A story called home

“Every spirit builds itself a house,” Emerson wrote, “and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Build, therefore, your own world.”

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A basic income is the answer to poverty

A basic income is the answer to poverty

Basic income is too complex to implement. So the thinking goes in the latest release by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. Yet data from Statistics Canada in 2020 demonstrated that changes to the Canada Child Benefit – a basic income program for families – was largely responsible for a near 4% decline in poverty from 2019 to 2020 alone.

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The day the Daamens came to Minto

The day the Daamens came to Minto

No one recalls what the weather was like on September 21, 1947, the day the train carrying Anthony and Henrica Daamen and their children rolled into the Hardwood Ridge station near the coal mining town of Minto, New Brunswick.

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Shifting perceptions, changing horizons

Shifting perceptions, changing horizons

There’s a lot more to writing than writing. As with life, you have to learn to see and feel and, then, learn to see and feel again. With enough reflection, contemplation, effort and hard work, sooner or later, self-awareness and a sense of wonder reveal that to change, move forward and become authentic, you must reconcile the duality of your life with the duality of your world.

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What would Andy Scott do?

What would Andy Scott do?

As the eagle flies, it’s only about 100 kilometres from Kelowna to Kamloops, British Columbia. But, after the May 27 discovery of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked burial site near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, it might as well be a million.

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