Don't they read these things before they print them?

Today’s Edmonton Journal has a small story, from the Canadian Press in Montréal entitled, “Blind woman struck and killed by bus carrying housing activists.” It’s of courses a tragic story, but what caught my attention was the people on the bus. They were, according to the article on their way back from a demonstration they staged in front of “Premier” Stephen Harper’s Ottawa office.

So what? Harper is now the Prime Minister of Canada and the premier of Ontario? Now that’s a neat way to raise you profile in the east, don’t you think?

Dief's day is almost here!

My book on John Diefenbaker is finally done. There have been so many false starts; it is hard to really believe that it's finally happening, and that one day real soon the bus will stop and drop off a box of my books!! I am waiting, as they say, with bated breath.

Four of Jackfruit's Warts and All series books including John Diefenbaker: The outside who refused to quit, Sir Wilfred Laurier: The weakling who stood his ground, by Heather Grace Stewart, William Lyon Mackenzie King: The loner who kept Canada together, and Jean Chretien: The scrapper who climbed his way to the top both by Nate Hendley, were launched at a ghostly gala on February 20th, in Toronto. Regretfully I wasn't able to make it out for the night.


But Dief's real big day is still to come. On March 14, at 7:30 pm, I will launch him, at a hopefully packed party, at Laurie Greenwoods Volume Two, 12433 - 102 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta. Hint, hint - all are invited. It should be great fun. Writer's cramp here we come. Might as well think positive, right?

Also anyone interested in Writing for Magazines - I have a class at Metro, running May 6 and 13, 2006.