This past Sunday a poetry reading was held at The Paper Mill Theatre with recitals from the works of Janko Karsai of Vancouver and Elenka Cmarkova of Banska Bystrica. It was a lovely event with Slovak dignitaries from throughout Canada in attendance. On Wednesday, me and my Elenka took Elenka and Slavka to Niagara Falls. We went to the Butterfly Conservatory, did a walk behind the falls and had a nice little walkabout around the Falls and Niagara on the Lake...

 For the first time in my undersea life I felt equal to, if not better than, the fish I swam with. Sure, they have built in fins, but the portable ones I wore were bigger and stronger. An angelfish smiled at me, a triggerfish winked. I gave them both the index finger to thumb dive signal showing that all was well. I looked at my depth gauge. We were at 120 feet (36.5 metres) as I began my silent chant "Let's dive deeper, let's dive deeper". But just the...

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 Below is a follow-up to my most recent entry, "Talking to Eastern Ukrainians":  Jack - Our newspapers claim that tensions are easing in Eastern Ukraine. Are you seeing this? Dennis - The 'green people' situation - 'green people' is the term widely used for “Russian armed militia" because of the camouflaged uniform - is not really easing yet. It is still pretty freaking dangerous to walk around wearing Ukrainian symbols as we like to do....

We had a very lengthy flight from Bangkok to Toronto, via Dubai. We like flying with Emirates so much that going a few thousand kilometres out of our way is worth it.