Opinion

The song “Winter Wonderland” was written in the early 1930s by Felix Bernard and Richard Bernhard Smith. Smith, who was from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, wrote the lyrics after seeing a city park covered in freshly fallen snow.

If readers were to see my list of favourite team sports to watch, and yes such a list has been made on more than once as a time filler, you would find I waffle from day-to-day between box lacrosse and rugby, depending I suspect largely on what is in

2020 certainly asked a lot of us. Wow, there’s the understatement of the New Year, right? Maybe that’s not quite the right wording. 2020 more or less snatched a lot from us without asking sort of permission.

It was New Year’s Eve 2019 and of the top resolutions being made that night, less screen time sat just behind getting finances in order and living a healthier life. Enter 2020.

Typically at this time in a new year journalists look back at the year that just passed into history.

The game Cyberpunk 2077 has me thinking about the future. It’s not due to the merits of the game itself, which I have not played.

In a year dominated by a global pandemic, it’s almost as if we’ve forgotten that we had a historic election this year.

To finally pull the 2020 calendar down from the wall, crumple it, tear it into pieces and toss it into the recycle bin was likely something of a cathartic exercise for many this year. The year 2020 is one which was difficult to say the least.

What are Canadians most longing to do when the pandemic is over? That’s what a new survey from Angus Reid aimed to uncover as 2020 draws to a close and Canadians look toward 2021 with more hope.

Most of you probably don’t remember the column “Laugh at Life” that I had the privilege to write years ago (thus… the “revisited” in the title).