It was a lot different. Last year I used to get the defensive calls from [former assistant coach] Dave Dempsey. When I was looking over there I was looking for him. It was different getting plays from different coaches. It just takes time to get used to it.

That's the tough part of his job. He didn't know anything about us coming into the season. After this game it shows what people can do and people can't do. I'm sure he'll be moving people around.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.