Jack MacAndrew

You probably remember that hurting’ song of the 1930s: All of me, why not take all of me? Can’t you see, I’m no good without you … Well, Anne Murray’s version of All of Me gives us more in excruciating showbiz minutiae than we may need or want, but little in the way of reflection or…

In midsummer of this 100th year of Anne of Green Gables, the Government of Prince Edward Island’s Department of the Environment announced that “anoxic events” had occurred in at least 20 island waterways. An algae commonly called sea lettuce, fed by an excess of nitrogen coming mostly from the runoff of phosphate-laden fertilizer applied in large doses to rejuvenate the fertility of potato…