I think I watch too much CNN. It often plays in the background as I do my work, vomiting the same political stories – interspersed with the occasional mass shooting or weather catastophe – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. White noise in the background helps me concentrate. And when I want to get real news, local, national or international, I change the...

Black Tea is a new podcast featuring Andray Domise and Melayna Williams. It claims to discuss issues important to black people. After entreaties to try it out, I subscribed and listened. I found it superficial, focused almost entirely on trying to reinforce the idea that white people are racists, working to silence the voice of minorities. Listen to the podcasts and...

If it were not so pathetic, it would be funny. Watching the usual political suspects commenting on whether Justin Trudeau groped Rose Knight’s at a 2000 event in Creston. They go back and forth, signalling their virtue with every statement. His defenders use arguments like the one in the July 6th Toronto Star,...

Reading, watching and listening to the local Toronto news, it is easy to thing that the city have become a war zone, with shootings going on night and day. And, of course, any shooting is an unfortunate thing. That said, I do start to wonder whether the hand wringing is a way for many to avoid saying what we wish we could say, that we don’t really care about...

It should go without saying that I stand with those who have used the #MeToo hashtag. Women should not be raped, harassed, leered at or be within earshot of something that might possibly offend them. Like children, women are always almost completely powerless and cannot be expected to protect themselves. If attacked, women cannot be expected to report such actions....

As usual, the news industry is excitedly chasing a story that includes some of its key favorite elements, celebrities and sex. This time, the media is chowing down on Harvey Weinstein. These arbiters of morality are shocked – shocked, I tell you! – that sex is going on behind those office doors. This is going to be a large percentage of the media’s...