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Winning at baseball is intoxicating—a dizzying pleasure like that of being spun across the dance floor by a partner so handsome and light on his feet that it makes you feel more attractive just by being in his arms. Yet, without mindful orientation, the moment the first pitch is thrown, our infatuation could quickly be dashed […]
Lynton Crosby. Most of us heard his name for the first time in early September. He is a Lord Voldemort of political professionals, a master of the dark arts who specializes in ripping apart tenuous bonds between neighbours and there, in the vacuum, systematically works the “divide and conquer” algorithm until the big problem of […]
Indie songwriter, Ryan Adams, has “re-imagined” Taylor Swift’s entire last album, 1989, and now has seven tracks on Billboard Hot Rock Tracks, all Taylor Swift material. He has landed on the chart only three times in his entire 20-year career. Oh, by the way, he’s a big fan. Arthouse music critics are hopping on board […]
I’m not really anybody. For demographic purposes you could segment me as a 50ish single woman with two children in their 20s, a self-employed professional living in downtown Toronto. I have no pension, no big home to sell and no expectation of a family inheritance. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that […]
If you’ve ever seen your father cry, you can probably still remember it. I saw my father, a war veteran who served on a minesweeper in WWII and who would be 93 this year if he had not drowned in 1985, cry exactly twice, although I don’t know if you could call it crying per […]
Baseball has its many charms whether your home team is winning or not. For the baseball fan, the season starts in April and ends in October, and during that time, someone’s home team somewhere is winning and, what with television and the Internet being what it is today, you can actually see the great teams […]
Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats are storming across the U.S. playing a tour of soaring soulful– and in the charge of some other group, possibly tired–Americana. But give them a listen and, as Jimmy Fallon encouraged when he introduced the band on its premiere U.S. TV appearance on his show, “turn it up.” It’ll get you up […]
Ask anyone on the street the one thing they know about what makes a deserving charity and they are likely to say it’s the one is spending less on overhead, “like uh, 10 or 15 per cent or something like that.” Canadian charities are getting stuck with the number 15. A “good” charity doesn’t spend […]
Okay … I’m coming clean …the “Toronto fundraiser” mentioned in the headline above is me. And, as the headline suggests, I have written a novel. You can read more about it here. I thought the Working Girl blog would be enough rope for me. But no. Periodic 1,000 word essays just didn’t do the trick. It […]
It will not come as a surprise to anyone who sees and hears TV or radio that the island of Newfoundland, and a chunk of Labrador, is in a time zone of its own — Newfoundland Standard Time. The island is three and a half hours from Coordinated Universal Time (CTU) or what used to […]
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