As the latest inevitable next news story about Toronto’s beleaguered mayor, Rob Ford plays out, I wonder what kind of role models today’s youth have to look up to. Television, radio, newspapers and the internet provide an endless stream of …
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I’m one 36 percent of Canadians with type A+ blood. And while that’s a pretty common blood type, it’s still one that that gets asked for on a regular basis. Back in university, I first donated blood one Valentine’s Day …
Canada lost a little bit of her innocence this week. On two separate occasions in just three days, in two provinces, two military men, two lives taken. Add to that our Parliament Buildings breached, guns fired, people injured and a …
I’ve been thinking recently about relationships and musing about how the advent of social media has affected them. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others have all it possible to peek into people’s lives; to reconnect, however briefly with people we left …
“Do you know who you are? Do you understand what has happened to you? Do you want to live this way?” If you’re a lover of Thursday night TV, you’ll recognize that line from Shonda Rhimes’ Grey’s Anatomy, just a few …
On the eve of municipal elections in Turkey, and after international media coverage of Twitter and YouTube bans, my mind is occupied with thoughts of this country. Years and years ago (we won’t count how many), I spent my last …
