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Elizabeth Robillard (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
''This is a time such as there never was before. It represents a vast social transformation in which there is at stake, and may be lost, all that has been gained in the slow centuries of material progress and in which there may be achieved some part of all that has been dreamed in the age-long passion for social justice. For the time being, the constituted governments of the world survive as best they...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
“The moment I cross the threshold of a bank and attempt to transact business there, I become an irresponsible idiot,” lamented Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humorist. A century later and in an impossibly more complex financial system, it is obvious that in that case he was perfectly at home in the institution.
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bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... that spring to mind but Evry brings to the fore Stanley Huntley, Fanny Fern, Ellis Parker Butler, Stephen Leacock and many, many other now lost in time names. Free , the way we like it. Here's Kelly's column. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A new voice for the humorists buried deep in the newspaper bin In the basement of his Woodbridge home — surrounded by comic books and paperbacks,...
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Literary Thunder Bay (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Thunder Bay's own Meghan Eddy shows off her comic smarts in her great blog about the trials of being a Thunder Bay waitress. A couple of years ago, Meghan won fourth prize in the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (high school category). Now at Lakehead University, and slugging along at a local anonymous restaurant, Meghan just gets funnier.Check out http://meghaneddy.blogspot.com...
