Quick one today. We have learned that the most concentrated deaths attributed to COVID-19 is found in seniors and nursing homes, places where residents are unable to care for themselves. Residents and support workers are infected at a higher rate than others and the death rate among residents is, not unexpectedly, large. We have heard stories of support workers not...

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...

I heard it again at a social event. A small group of people were talking about the upcoming year in university. The group was an interesting mix, young and old, parents and students, men and women. One of the fathers mentioned that he was worried about his daughter, who is 18, living alone on the other side of the country. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the...

It is September 2017. Over the last few months in Canada, we have seen protests against illegal immigration where people are choosing to walk across the border from the US. Many people can understand the motivation. Non-citizens in the US are worried that the change in politics signaled by the election of Donald Trump is an indicator that they will be deported back...