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It was 20 years ago today……
…that 9/11 happened. So please spare a memory for those who died and for how our world has grown much less stable in the past two decades because of it. One good way is to watch Spike Lee’s film that captures New York’s faith and fate since September 11, 2001. Make it a communal thing: bring your family, friends, neighbours old and new.
Five Royal Scandals
My wife is the ultimate realist. But she’s always been a royalist too, which proves you can hold two opposed ideas in your head at the same time and still function.
But it’s getting worse. She used to glance sideways at the cover of Hello Canada in the supermarket check-out line. Now she subscribes to Quora Digest which gives her a morning fix of news and gossip from the Palace. She can barely keep up with all the scandals these days.
The Good, the Baad, and the Lucky
“None of our staff has been beaten, attacked, killed, as far as I know,” she said.
That’s what an Afghan woman who runs a women’s shelter said last week after the Taliban over-ran her town. By any account, women in Afghanistan, already among the most wretched of the earth, are in for an even more dreadful time.
Labour Daze
Oh well. It was a blessed summer, with an added month thrown in when May became as warm and sunny as July. But all that
Passport, please
Yesterday, I saw an Instagram post with a photo of a Viagra pill. You know that pill, the blue one with the word “Pfizer” in
Manufacturing Addiction
Back when I was a drug addict, quality control didn’t exist because the manufacturers and sales force were drug dealers. You could die because what
The Last Weekend of the Summer
I say make hay while the sun shines. Not in the same way weekends revved you and saved you in the past. But in a
Vax or Die
Jean and I are newbie road-trippers. Last summer, we strapped our kayaks to the roof of our car and set out to Lake Superior from
A Woman’s Work
In 2009, Jean and I went to Afghanistan for two reasons. The first was to see the Kabul Widow’s Feeding Program in action and raise
Why we call Saturday’s blog “OG.”
It’s short for “Omnium-Gatherum” which is the long, Latin way to say “Things I fell across on my way to tomorrow.” As always, we start
The Dog Days of August
We’re in them right now, the hottest, most sultry time of the year. Their name comes from the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, in
Broke, In More Ways Than One
Paul Goldberger had dinner at our home 10 years ago. Back then Goldberger was the architecture critic for the New Yorker having done the same
The Beautiful Game
“Of course we should form a women’s pro soccer league in Canada.” Yes, we should. But not like how we did women’s pro hockey. This
The Beautiful Game
“Of course we should form a women’s pro soccer league in Canada.”
Yes, we should. But not like how we did women’s pro hockey.
Faster. Higher. Stronger. Quitter.
No one knows before an Olympics what it will be remembered for. We knew when the Tokyo Games opened on July 23rd that COVID would
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