Pent-Up Demand Goes Panting
Last weekend all across Ontario, the entire 15 million of us, poured into theatres, museums, gyms, hair-dressers and border crossings. Even though none of what
July 24, 2021
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Back to Abnormal
We’re officially three weekends into freedom and what are you feeling? A bit like that old Ontario tourism campaign – “Friendly, Familiar, Foreign and Near?”
July 17, 2021
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Hot Enough for You?
Global warming isn’t always about Heat Advisories in the High Arctic. It’s about our normally placid middle-of-the road weather going bi-polar. It’s about extremes. So
July 10, 2021
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Saturday Multi-Slacking
Is the whole point of weekdays the weekend? Certainly it is in summer, and most certainly this summer because last summer was cancelled without notice.
July 3, 2021
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Downhill from here
The longest day of easily the longest year was last Monday, June 21st. Between then and December 21st, the sun will shine on our feral
June 26, 2021
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Summer is a Season Again
Last summer didn’t count. We couldn’t go anywhere, do anything, see anyone. Already, this summer is making up for lost time. We’re going everywhere, doing
June 19, 2021
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By the Dawn’s Early Light
I want to go to America. So do you. I know we live in a beautiful land. But like everyone else on earth, crossing a
June 12, 2021
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Streaming or Screaming?
The pandemic not only sent us all home, it threw us onto our screens. Here we dutifully started watching videos – not just by streaming
May 29, 2021
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Queen Victoria is not amused
It’s her weekend and are we planting our gardens without fear they’ll freeze overnight? Are we opening our cottages, swatting the blackflies, gassing up at
May 22, 2021
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Saturday soul-searching –and soul-selling.
Odds are, you’ve had at least one shot, and if you’re American or British, both. But if you’re like me, you’re still suffering from vaccine-envy.
May 15, 2021
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Time to stretch the parts of you that other days don’t.
Scientific research has two roads: curiosity-driven and problem-solving. In the first, you get to ask: “Gee, what would happen if?” In the second, you’re asking:
May 8, 2021
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Big ideas in small packages
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Ramsay Writes, designed to divert our gaze from the dull and the usual, and remind us how odd and
May 1, 2021
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