Throwback Thursday: The sequence in Midnight Mass where Henry Thomas plucks Wild Fell out of Kristen Lehman's hands in order to danc...

  The new book, PRIDE, will be published by Douglas & McIntyre  two months from today, just in time for full spring. I'm delighted ...

  I am haunted tonight by the story of Airman Aaron Bushnell, who set himself on fire yesterday in front of the Israeli embassy in Washingto...

  Tucked away at the airport with a Bloody Mary, doing some work for the publicist assigned to the new book, and thinking about this spectac...

  In Manchester, UK today, two teenagers, a male and a female, were sentenced to 20+ year terms in prison for the sadistic murder of a 16-ye...

  I'm delighted and honoured to share that I'll be speaking a Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario at the Jack.Org annual sum...

Re-reading Dan Simmons' A Winter Haunting this evening, I came across a mention of an IBM ThinkPad, and it sent me down an unusually dee...

My only goal today is to turn down ugly voices—whether they're political commentators on television, or social media chatterboxes blithe...

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I got up early this morning to join the "No Space For Hate" protest at Queen's Park, the counter-protest response to the one-d...

  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...