All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

We are only allowed to livedue to some colossal misunderstanding.

I’m not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Heaven is freakin’ not ready for me!” – seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship.” – John Hanlon, the sailor

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

I’d ice-skated before, because I’m Canadian and that’s what you do as a kid, but I’d never, ever been on quad skates.

Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny”.

We’ll shape it withour souls.”Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: ‘Information is the lifeblood of a democracy. Without adequate access to key information about government policies and...

In school, I hated poetry – those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain I run through,Grass I...

Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation’s finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of...

The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs – memories and Canada.

The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

In Canada, when we speak of water, we’re speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul;...

Don’t tell me you’re not beautiful. You’re the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

Can I see some ID?” “WE DON’T HAVE ID,” said Jay, loudly. “‘CAUSE WE’RE CANADIAN. WE DON’T USE ID…THERE. AND THAT’S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. ‘CAUSE WE’RE CANADIAN.” Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug...

We know so little about what goes on in another person’s head.

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive...

Novels and gardens,” she says. “I like to move from plot to plot.