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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…
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…
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…
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,…
Paul Goldberger had dinner at our home 10 years ago. Back then Goldberger was the architecture critic for the New Yorker having done the…
“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….
“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….
No one knows before an Olympics what it will be remembered for. We knew when the Tokyo Games opened on July 23rd that COVID…
An essential chapter of the fascist playbook is to blame foreign actors for your troubles. Poland, Hungary, and China do it today as a…
I’m tired of the phrases “award-winning” and “best-selling.” Tired because they signal puffery and bullshit over skill and achievement. Which is odd since they…
The “August Long Weekend” began as a bank holiday, which is the term to describe a day when the banks are closed in the…
America is such a rich well of strangeness that you can uncover almost any belief about anything and hold it up as proof of…
I generally write one blog on a subject and then move on. This is because the world is a fascinating place for a hedgehog…
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…
In April last year, as Donald Trump handed the pandemic over to the states to deal with, and then kept Democratic ones from receiving…
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