I Believe…
Why can’t we all just get along? We could if we followed the rules in this meme. Happy Friday! …
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Sacred Cows Get Slaughtered
There’s a lot of interesting reading in so-called non-mainstream newspapers. London has a couple. They’re not beholden to advertisers or any perception of what is universally good or bad. They are free to opine about whatever catches their fancy. One of these is the London Yodeller. …
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It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like…
It’s not “white stuff”. It wasn’t brought here by Old Man Winter. Mother Nature isn’t having a bad day. …
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A Win for Chocoholics
Months ago it was announced that payouts would begin in a class action lawsuit over collusion and price-fixing by the big chocolate companies. They admitted to conspiring to artificially boost the prices of their goods. I know, right? Arseholes. …
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We Remember
Poppy sales and donations are up this year and it’s not hard to figure out why. The murders of Cpl. Cirillo and Warrant Officer Vincent put faces, families and tangible heartache on the vague, “people who serve our country”. …
Review: Wish You Were Here 4
This month of Movember, when men are sprouting ‘staches and raising research dollars and awareness to fight prostate cancer, has taken on a life of its own. And around the time Movember started to spread around the world, a 20-year-old Londoner named Jesse Hildebrand-Nestor was losing a number of people he knew to the disease. Â …
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Brittany Maynard is my Heroine
She didn’t sell a single record, appear in a movie or TV reality show, or post selfies to Twitter. But Brittany Maynard is a superstar in my view. The 29-year-old with terminal brain cancer ended her own suffering on the weekend by taking a lethal dose of drugs. Day by day, she could feel herself slipping away and losing the basic ability to think and she refused to let the process drag out for up to six excruciating months. …
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Tasting Tomorrow
When I moved out on my own, I asked my Grandma to send me some of her favourite recipes. I still have the cards, with ingredients and instructions in blue ink, in her identifiable scrawl, detailing things that, sadly, I will never make. Spiced tomato relish. Sweet pickles. Dishes I identify with her but don’t particularly enjoy. But I’ll never throw out those cards. I couldn’t have known that we would lose her so soon after I left home. …
Cheating Death on Halloween
Say what you like, it’s really just all about the candy! …
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Journalists Imploding
It is municipal election day but I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that last week’s sad events in Ottawa are overshadowing the delivery of democracy in Ontario cities and towns today. Oh we’ll vote, but there are bigger things on our minds. Â …
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A Fact is a Fact
Seems to me a good laugh is warranted at the end of this particularly challenging week. This comic strip reminds me of one of my favourite exchanges among many in the TV show Friends. Ross Geller, the paleontologist, is trying to explain evolution to Phoebe Snow, the air-headed, mystical musician. Phoebe challenges him and says, “it’s just an opinion”. Â Ross is nearly out of his mind with frustration and responds, “It’s a proven fact!” Phoebe retorts, “And that’s YOUR opinion!” Â …
Getting to Know Ebola
There is no need to panic. But there’s no cause to dismiss Ebola either. Â …
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