Back on Friday, March 13th, we were all so doe-eyed and naive. COVID was killing thousands in Italy and in Canada we’d all just been
You see flames flicker up from an empty seat in front of you. You’re tempted to stand up and yell “Fire!” But you don’t because that
The fate-of-humankind question isn’t “When will a vaccine arrive?” It’s also: “Who will take the vaccine?” Two things happened last week to help us answer
You can scratch and claw and fight and hope and despair, and for years nothing changes. Then one day, everything changes. We are living one
Toronto is one of the last places in North America still largely closed by the pandemic. Good. Because saving our lives or saving our economy
Today is 13 weeks exactly since millions of us were told not to come back to our offices and stay home. Three months exactly. One
There’s a flood of online courses, experts and self-improvers out there, all vying for time on my screen and my day. Frankly, I’m exhausted from
I haven’t read a book in well over a year. Sure, I dip into books, extracting what I need for work. Often and ironically, this
One million fewer people live in New Zealand than in the Greater Toronto Area. Yet as of last night, New Zealand has 1,504 cases of
The awful news out of our long-term care homes punctures whatever myth of exceptionalism we held about ourselves. It will be harder to claim: “We’re
My wife Jean and I once trekked 1,000 miles on the Appalachian Trail. It took us three months with our 45 lb. packs strapped to
No other public library system in the world is bigger and busier than Toronto’s. Not New York. Not London. Us. Nearly 70 per cent of
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