June Callwood contributed a lot to our country.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/14/callwood.html?ref=rss

Fun with book titles!

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070413/K041307AU.html

If you've never read any of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, I highly recommend that you start reading them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6547399.stm

Here's an interesting look at the some of the points of disagreement between China and Japan, from the perspective of young people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6545085.stm

This news story is from the town where I was born--Nokomis, Saskatchewan. My home town, Govan, doesn't have a hospital, and the nearest one was in Nokomis.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/04/10/nokomis.html?ref=rss

The Pope sometimes says things that I agree with:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/08/pope.html?ref=rss

Happy Easter!

"Today is Easter Sunday in the Christian Church, the holiday that celebrates Jesus' resurrection from the dead. Easter is one of the few floating holidays in the calendar year, because it's based on the cycles of the moon. Jesus was said to have risen from the dead on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. For that reason, Easter can fall as early as March 22nd and as late as April 25th.

The word "Easter" comes from an ancient pagan goddess worshipped by Anglo Saxons named Eostre. According to legend, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became our Easter Bunny. Eggs were a symbol of fertility in part because they used to be so scarce during the winter. There are records of people giving each other decorated eggs at Easter as far back as the 11th century."