Maybe it’s because this winter has been so relentless and it has felt like it’s beating me down that I had the most unlikely thought the other day about how I could emerge from this season victorious. I could take on winter and slap it into submission with my leather glove.  Maybe that’s why I had the crazy and powerful urge to go tobogganing. …
Morgan Freeman was once asked, “When will racism end?” His answer, “When we all stop talking about it.” …
I took some heat from fellow BJs – Broadcast Journalists – last week for a tweet I put out after Kathleen Wynne held a news conference to announce the changes to minimum wage.  You’re likely aware that minimum wage has been frozen at $10.25 since 2010 and it will go up in June to$11/hr. The province will also table a bill to tie future increases to inflation. …
Fascinating news came out of Western University late last week. A PhD student there was honoured by NASA with a prestigious award because of his work operating the Mars rover Curiosity from his lab at the school. …
It’s well established on these pages that the misuse of the apostrophe is what’s going to finally push me over the edge! Of all of the grammatical errors, putting an apostrophe into a simple plural is the one I can’t tolerate or even understand. How did so many people come to believe it’s right to write it’s every time you use the word? Â I tell students to think about whether they’re trying to say “it is” and if not, leave the ‘ out. …
By now you might be aware that we are completely owned by this cat we adopted 16 months ago. And until recently he didn’t have a job. …