Afghanistan

For me, I’ve always had a global view of Remembrance Day. While I was born in Canada, my view comes largely because my parents are both World War II survivors and immigrated to Canada in 1969.

Mark and I were talking the other day about losing our friends in Afghanistan, and how difficult it is to watch their young faces appear on the news, their lives cut too short by war. Soon, we got to talking about repatriation ceremonies.

Though there'll be no more daily commune with the queen of talk once her show goes off the air at the end of this season, but you can bet we'll still be getting a healthy dose of Oprah in our lives, and she promises it will be "bitch"-free. Oprah's new network – aptly named the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) – will hit the airwaves this coming January 1. The queen herself took to the stage at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference in California and announced that her cable network will be "fun and entertaining without tearing people down and calling them bitches. Imagine that. Imagine." We are imagining it Oprah, and we can hardly wait.

Tiger Woods is ready to get back into ads; one man's horrible prank calls to Canadian military families; New Brunswick to fund controversial MS treatment; America warns the world about impending release of damaging top secret documents; and Sarah Palin thinks she can beat Obama.

This is pretty much the best thing to happen to anyone, anywhere, in a long, long time. Here's how it went down: Dick Van Dyke fell asleep on a surfboard and drifted out to sea....