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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 […]
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 […]
Prologue Elizabeth May’s intention in her speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner on the weekend was to run with some edgy humour. She’s totally capable of it. She can be funny and she is smart. Sadly for Ms. May, it came across as all edge and no humour. Your Working Girl can empathsize with […]
Yesterday, I wrote a blog about Jesse Brown, the Batman journalist flying all over Gotham demanding we listen to him about the state of Canadian media. Fine. I’ll listen to anyone for a few minutes and I think the points he’s making about needing better media critique in this country are good ones. But the problem […]
In the 1989 movie, Blaze, starring Paul Newman as Earl Long, the “finest governor of the great state of Louisiana” and introducing the incredible Lolita Davidovitch as the burlesque-dancing love of his life, Blaze Starr (not her real name), there’s a scene in which Blaze’s mother imparted a few words of wisdom to her daughter just […]
On Thursday, January 8th, a woman waited on a cold Toronto street for former CBC host, Jian Ghomeshi, to emerge from a court room and, amid people making catcalls, she shouted “castrate him,” according to the Globe and Mail. On Wednesday, two “Muslim extremists” barged into an editorial meeting of the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo […]
… Greenpeace In an effort to bring attention to climate change at a U.N. conference on that topic held in Lima, Peru from December 1st to the 14th, a contingent of Greenpeace campaigners trampled through the Nazca Lines, a United Nations World Heritage Site, causing potentially irreparable damage to the ancient and vulnerable archeological location. […]
(Lewis Hamilton hugging his girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) (November 27, 2014) I am one of the first people to get it. I understand completely. Being a Formula 1 race fan is a nerdy-slash-incomprehensible pastime with a dash of “trying too hard” if you’re a woman, which, in this case, applies—the […]
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