I gave this speech at Rosedale United Church yesterday. I had no idea that the church was recording it, but I was delighted to learn they ...

  Some months back, I was taken to task for my satirical "Happy Sunday" posts on my Facebook page by someone who felt that I was m...

  I was doing some late-night grocery shopping at the Metro on Gould Street, and I noticed a significant number of Muslim families in the st...

  "Putin—very smart. Now, he's had probably a bad year. Don't forget, that whole this is not...if he took over all of Ukraine....

  This photograph is of me at "my" booth, with my young friend Gabriela (she/her/hers), who was the last employee hired by Bar Ver...

There are red-winged Blackbirds in the cemetery. I realize that sounds like the first line of a ghost story, but it actually means spring is...

      My driver this afternoon was a former refugee who's been in Canada for some years. He had a warm, generous face, even when I could...

In an odd way, I applaud Michael Knowles for placing his genocidal fantasies front and centre, in a way that even the Nazis didn't quite...

I wanted to sit with my feelings about M. Night Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin (2023) for a bit before rendering some thoughts First off...

"Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight, The ways of the woodlands were ...

  I'm saddened tonight by the news that Nordstrom is shuttering all its Canadian stores.  I didn't shop there—I was not their target...

We lost our friend Kirk Rogers last night. Kirk was the ultimate refutation of the notion that Facebook "friends" aren't rea...

 

  On September 4th, 1967, with blistering dignity, 15-year old Elizabeth Eckford, the first Black student to integrate a Southern high schoo...