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Invisible no more
Print Edition 21/11/09 Page F1
Sir John A. Macdonald was contemptuous of full-time soldiers. So were most Canadians in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.The first prime minister believed ''that regulars . . . had taken up soldiering because they were good at nothing else [and] were useful only for hunting, drinking and chasing women,'' Queen's University military historian Allan English wrote in his 2004 book Understanding Military Culture: A Canadian Perspective.
Canada's military: Invisible no more
On-line 20/11/09 06:41 PM
Why our national mythology has moved beyond the idea of peacekeeping and embraced the culture of the warrior
Google PC will start in seven seconds or less
On-line 20/11/09 03:49 PM
Makers of upcoming Chrome OS say it will be out for 2010 holiday season but initially on certain netbooks
Google phone strategy takes off, challenges ahead
On-line 20/11/09 03:41 PM
Android OS on 12 phones; 12,000-plus apps available but mobile games developer says cutting back on Android apps
Sony eyes online service to build loyalty
On-line 20/11/09 12:16 PM
Company plans service to be up next year, to include games, movie downloads, interactive entertainment accessible on Sony products
N A U G H T Y ... A N D N I C E
Print Edition 20/11/09 Page E2
We all remember when the car business was just sooo easy. A high-horsepower engine and a sexy design were all any auto maker needed to create buzz and a best seller. It was a simple formula: Deliver both at a great price in a ride that refused to break, and a car maker could relax for a year or three. The hard part would be finding a place to stack all the car-of-the-year hardware and count the profits.
DONE DEAL / TSAWWASSEN
Print Edition 20/11/09 Page S4
1350 VIEW CRES., UNIT 609ASKING PRICE: $494,900SELLING PRICE: $494,900PREVIOUS SELLING PRICES: $345,000 (June, 2009); $255,000 (1995); $259,000 (1993); $241,000 (1993)TAXES: $2,381 (2009)
Your social conscience, on four wheels
On-line 19/11/09 06:01 PM
Michael Vaughan and Jeremy Cato give you the best of the socially conscious vehicles
My in-laws never threw anything away
On-line 19/11/09 12:00 AM
They had 10 brooms, six mops and expired tins of tomatoes. But emptying their house, I got to know them
My in-laws never threw anything away
Print Edition 19/11/09 Page L8
My husband and his siblings were still coming to terms with the 2007 death of their father when their mother died last year.After dealing with their elderly parents' deteriorating health - their father succumbed to the soul-crushing effects of Alzheimer's disease and their mother to the misery of cancer - the thought of cleaning out the house with all its memories was too daunting. So the task fell to my sister-in-law and me.
