Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices April 2012 Decades ago I bought Viet Nam war veteran Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried because I was intrigued by the title. I was a teenager in the 70’s and had always been moved by what young soldiers had gone
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Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices March 2012 I just listened to an interview with mortgage broker, Peter Finch, expounding on Canada’s predicament with CMHC, Canada’s Mortgage and Housing Corporation. This is the governing body responsible for providing mandatory mortgage insurance. Apparently, should mortgage rates increase more
Read more →Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices March 2012 A frantic mother calls her veterinarian. She’s just been told by her family doctor that her child’s ringworm came from the family cat. She’s looking at euthanasia. This may seem like a drastic measure, but in May of 2010,
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