No one forgot 9/11 yesterday. Â The firefighters memorial in London was my second story all morning after the latest on a Personal Support Worker accused of beating a 12-year-old boy nearly to death. Â 11 years after the terrorist attacks they are still very much on everyone’s minds. Â …
Thanks once again to the This is True newsletter for bringing this to my attention. Â Story written by Randy Cassingham. It illustrates the insanity of zero tolerance on some issues and the overbearing nature of the “nanny” approach to, well, to just about everything except being a nanny. …
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The Beat Magazine, aka publisher Richard Young, reviewed my book and gave it 4 out of 4 stars. I can hardly say that without shaking my head in a mix of disbelief and gratitude.  Without his permission (!) I’m adding the link to the review here and reprinting the text of it here. …
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Sobering thoughts for a Sunday. Â Mr. Morcos was a happily married man of 54 who took his own life this spring. Â He had Huntington’s disease and having watched his father deteriorate with the progressive illness he knew, and he had told those he loved, that he wasn’t going to experience the same fate. Â …
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Often times people talk about what they’d like to do if they had a second go-round at this crazy thing called life. I’ve always said I’d try to become a stand-up comic. Â But something I would like to do now? Have my own retail store. Â …
I didn’t say a word about it. Â I didn’t want anyone else getting nervous for me because I was nervous enough and being wished good luck and given nuggets of advice would only add to my anxiety. Â But yesterday I took the road test to exit M2 and get my full M license. Â And I passed! Â …
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I don’t know about you but I don’t exactly wait breathless for the fall fashion trend reports.  Still, when fashion media start telling us what we should wear, it’s hard not to notice, especially if they’re all saying the same thing.  Polka-dots. …
So London’s Mayor, Joe Fontana, is taking some heat for telling our university football team, the Western Mustangs, that hard work is bullshit. …
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The first thing you need to know is that this story ends well.  But you need to keep in mind that I didn’t know that as these events unfolded.  I think we need to share these stories because knowledge is power and sometimes things are not at all as they seem. …
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Derek comes from a family that camped.  They loved to camp and they did it together, all 112 of them.  Well it must have seemed like that many to their parents. …
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I’m a lucky gal.  CFRB 1010 in Toronto offered me a half-hour on air with Ted Woloshyn on Saturday to talk about my ebook so I jumped on it like a chipmunk on a nut in winter. …
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Okay that’s just a slight over-statement! But so far I’ve been on radio from Halifax to Chatham, from Wingham to St. Catharines.  And today, it’s CFRB 1010 Toronto. …
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