Walk on
Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of the Times for 2021. To be honest, I wasn’t sure about wishing you a...
A bath with a toaster
Curiosity is not a sin. Humans are curious by nature, and being curious is a driving force behind learning and discovering. There will always...
What’s the hurry?
by Deron Johnston
At the Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday, September 18, the Department of Corporate Services (chaired by Deputy Mayor Tobin) released...
Helpless
This is Heritage Week in Ontario, and, following our special heritage issue last week, it seems like a good time to think a bit...
And so this is Christmas…
Everyone has a favourite Christmas carol or two. Some are older, religious ones, like “Away in a Manger”, or “Joy to the World”. Others...
Femicide
March 25th marked a historic date in the House of Commons in its 154-year history. It was the first time in our history that...
My generation
It may be because I am so tired of political news, from Trudeau to Trump, from Brexit to Doug Ford, that I decided to...
Get Back
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” These wise words were written by L.P. Hartley in his novel, The Go-Between,...
Lean on me
Last week was Mental Health Week in Canada. It was also National Nurses Week, and perhaps that is more than a coincidence. Mental health...
Another year over….
Happy New year to all! And just one week into 2020, I want to make a definite resolution: no variation of “2020 vision”, or...