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I recently purchased my entry visa to our current decade by investing in a smartphone, and I鈥檓 having mixed feelings about it. Not the phone, necessarily, but what the phone means. Before I was a proud owner, I was a bit of a smartphone neophyte.

In August, the Chinese Ministry of Education released 10 Regulations to Lessen Academic Burden for Primary School Students Grades 1-3.

One of the best-kept secrets in Canada鈥檚 long tradition of scientific research is the Ontario-based Experimental Lakes Area.

Patriotism, English essayist Samuel Johnson wrote, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson clearly never met a 91原创 interest group. Patriotism is always their first refuge.

You have to wonder where the Green party鈥檚 interpretation of a major federal research project on the north coast leaves the B.C. Liberals.

Contrary to what you might have heard, there is no 鈥渂ee-pocalypse.鈥� There is lots of alarmist talk about colony-collapse disorder. People are blaming pesticides and talking about hundreds of billions of dollars at risk.

It may be that the charter of Quebec values never becomes law. It may be that this is a trial balloon, a little late-summer silliness, a taunt, tease or test, with no purpose but provocation.

I was so busy spending money in the commercial tents at the Saanich Fair that it took a while to notice something significant. I鈥檓 a sucker for all the marmalades, preserves, chutneys and spice mixes on offer.

For some reason I had wanted to go to the pub. I was already drunk 鈥� really drunk, because I somehow realized I was in no shape to get behind the wheel of my truck.

I haven't been writing nearly as much in recent months as I used to. I have been caught up in trying to make a living, which isn't a bad thing, and in fact is going quite well, but still... It takes up a lot of time.