The endless grousing about brains draining and skills shortages is curious in a typically Canadian way. The complaints are no doubt sincere, and probably valid. But, why they are separated into two discrete issues has to cause wonder. The decoupling almost guarantees that solutions for the skills shortage will feed the “brain drain,” leaving both problems to grow not diminish. Turning them into...

Some people wonder whether there are witches, others believe that there are some, and many think there are none. All of them raise hard issues about meaning and propositional attitudes. Suppose, for example, that there are no witches. Then it seems the term ‘witch’ refers to nothing. So, plausibly, the word ‘witch’ means nothing. Hence, sentences that contain the term ‘witch’, such as ‘There ar...

We remark that the result presented here can be proved more simply using the closed graph theorem. However we believe that our results can be used to prove a more interesting result. Details to follow in a later paper. One of the remarkable features of the space of holomorphic functions (in either one or several variables) is that the standard Frechet space topologies— say, for example, the L o...

Mark Anthony Jarman’s characters are often down and out, wandering wondering. Using theories of wonder, this essay argues that wonder plays a key role in many stories—stories marked not by narrative or psychological closure, but sense as muse on their lot life. After briefly considering within Canadian literature, including his innovative approaches to the short story form, odd status an influe...