When you live with love you live with worry or so I've heard if that's what you said when he took sick and you were taken ill yourself when he took a heart attack you said he'd had a widowmaker the kind that a quadruple bypass won't fix without a pacemaker and that time he said he didn't know what he was equal to for the first time Eugene Forsey was a Meighan conservative before a Rhodes Scholarship made him a democratic socialist and a labour organizer who could forget the League for Reconstruction and the CCF he was the son of the Grand Bank in the Newfoundland Colony and the grandson of a printer who made the stationery for John A. MacDonald then in the East Block and when he talked to us he was a Senator himself who objected to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms not because he didn't feel those things were worth protecting but because he regretted the passing of the propriety that made people respect others short of being or...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!