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in today’s Toronto star, an article that told me a lot I had never had to think about: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Sadiya Ansari: What kind of brown am I? This violent chapter of history from almost 80 years ago is still complicating that seemingly simple question
The partition of India and Pakistan makes identifying as being from either country more complex than it appears.
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August 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
in today’s Toronto star, an article that told me a lot I had never had to think about: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Americans celebrate America – well, that’s great. But do they have to do it at Canada‘s National Arts Centre?
Hit musical ‘Hamilton’ returns to Ottawa’s National Arts Centre
Hit musical ‘Hamilton’ returns to Ottawa’s National Arts Centre
The award-winning ‘Hamilton’ production, presented by Broadway Across Canada, is back for two weeks in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Americans celebrate America – well, that’s great. But do they have to do it at Canada‘s National Arts Centre?
All-star break is over, and #mlb is still inflicting “oppo taco” on play-by-play listeners every inning. You’d think they actually wanted to drive listeners away!
July 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
All-star break is over, and #mlb is still inflicting “oppo taco” on play-by-play listeners every inning. You’d think they actually wanted to drive listeners away!
Reposted by Chris Redmond
Ottawa lawyer raises concerns about police naming suspects in news releases
Ottawa lawyer raises concerns about police naming suspects in news releases
An Ottawa-based criminal defence lawyer is raising concerns about police naming some suspects, while choosing to withhold others, in news releases following a crime.
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July 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ottawa lawyer raises concerns about police naming suspects in news releases
Six Congressmen swallow cospiracy theory about Canada’s devastating wildfires www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer, says letter from Congress members | CBC News
Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, says a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's U.S. ambassador.
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July 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Six Congressmen swallow cospiracy theory about Canada’s devastating wildfires www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
What a coincidence that Jimmy Swaggart is in the news (“prostitution scandals… dies at 90“) just as I’m finishing reading Sinclair Lewis’s novel Elmer Gantry, which is 98 years old and still meaningful.
July 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What a coincidence that Jimmy Swaggart is in the news (“prostitution scandals… dies at 90“) just as I’m finishing reading Sinclair Lewis’s novel Elmer Gantry, which is 98 years old and still meaningful.
Watching the livestream of high school graduation ceremony this morning (because grandson is in the band) and wondering how it ever came to be that “Pomp and Circumstance“, a.k.a. “Land of Hope and Glory”, moved from coronation music to the soundtrack of the academic treadmill.
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Watching the livestream of high school graduation ceremony this morning (because grandson is in the band) and wondering how it ever came to be that “Pomp and Circumstance“, a.k.a. “Land of Hope and Glory”, moved from coronation music to the soundtrack of the academic treadmill.
“It’s a terrifying thing“ crossing into the United States, Canadians say www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Maine governor comes face to face with Canadian travel fears | CBC News
Maine Gov. Janet Mills spoke to New Brunswickers Tuesday alongside Premier Susan Holt. The event gave Mills the opportunity to hear the concerns surrounding border crossings and visits to the U.S. Mil...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“It’s a terrifying thing“ crossing into the United States, Canadians say www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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You are not nostalgic about the 90s, 80s, or 70s. You are nostalgic about your own youth - whenever that was…
June 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You are not nostalgic about the 90s, 80s, or 70s. You are nostalgic about your own youth - whenever that was…
My chief tool for understanding US and world news is the daily reports from electoral-vote.com. They’re taking this week off, in a reaction to the current dark atmosphere around – well, everything – and I hardly know how to understand the headlines.
June 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My chief tool for understanding US and world news is the daily reports from electoral-vote.com. They’re taking this week off, in a reaction to the current dark atmosphere around – well, everything – and I hardly know how to understand the headlines.
There are plenty of reasons I can’t write fiction competently, but today I am realizing a new one: I apparently can’t perpetrate violence or disaster or even scandalous indecency on my characters, and without any of that, who cares what they do?
June 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There are plenty of reasons I can’t write fiction competently, but today I am realizing a new one: I apparently can’t perpetrate violence or disaster or even scandalous indecency on my characters, and without any of that, who cares what they do?
A certain Sherlockian is lamenting that she doesn’t have the Doubleday text along on her present road trip. Maybe what is needed is a Sherlockian app for phones, with story texts, search facility, and reference works. Any suggestions?
June 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A certain Sherlockian is lamenting that she doesn’t have the Doubleday text along on her present road trip. Maybe what is needed is a Sherlockian app for phones, with story texts, search facility, and reference works. Any suggestions?
An important and emotional day. The United Church has been entwined with my life through childhood, service, and scholarship, and I even attend my local congregation once in a while.
The United Church of Canada looks good for 100! Honoured to offer the sermon this morning at the National Capital Region celebration of the 100th Anniversary in Ottawa. As the church grows, may we continue to foster openness, inclusion and meaningful relationships inside and outside our community.
June 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
An important and emotional day. The United Church has been entwined with my life through childhood, service, and scholarship, and I even attend my local congregation once in a while.
An astonishing find! I can hardly believe it’s real.
On Wednesday 4th March 1885 the Portsmouth Evening News 'Lost' section contained a notice from a 'Mrs Sherlock Holm' of Southsea. I wonder if this name inspired Doyle as he cast his eye across the paper that morning. #sherlock
June 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
An astonishing find! I can hardly believe it’s real.
I need a random plot point, please. He is walking along the sidewalk after lunch, minding his own business, when all of a sudden… What?
June 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I need a random plot point, please. He is walking along the sidewalk after lunch, minding his own business, when all of a sudden… What?
Relevant in Canada too, where the church apparently seeks to be right out there!
Words such as “boldly,” “joyfully” and “courageously” are rooted in an extroverted ideal, but the Rev. Myung Sun Han offers another way to view the vision statement.
‘Not-so-obviously introverted’ pastor reflects on church’s new vision | UMNews.org
Words such as “boldly,” “joyfully” and “courageously” are rooted in an extroverted ideal, but pastor offers another way to view the vision statement.
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June 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Relevant in Canada too, where the church apparently seeks to be right out there!
The sky is grey here in eastern Ontario, a mere 2,800 kilometres from places like Flin Flon where wildfires are throwing ash into the wind. Health authorities are advising us against outdoor sports and heavy labour. You can smell the smoke.
June 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The sky is grey here in eastern Ontario, a mere 2,800 kilometres from places like Flin Flon where wildfires are throwing ash into the wind. Health authorities are advising us against outdoor sports and heavy labour. You can smell the smoke.
The water is high today, and the whitecaps are gleaming, on Ontario‘s Mississippi River
May 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The water is high today, and the whitecaps are gleaming, on Ontario‘s Mississippi River
Of course, not everybody agrees with nationalpost.com that government spending is automatically “bad”
May 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Of course, not everybody agrees with nationalpost.com that government spending is automatically “bad”
Exactly. The power belongs with Parliament, not with the Prime Minister.
Mark Carney is the prime minister—he should stop acting like a president thehub.ca/2025/05/23/j...
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Joanna Baron: Mark Carney is the prime minister—he should stop acting like a president
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May 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Exactly. The power belongs with Parliament, not with the Prime Minister.
Just wondering, how long does “a higher than normal call volume“ have to go on before it becomes the new normal?
May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just wondering, how long does “a higher than normal call volume“ have to go on before it becomes the new normal?
Very interested by comments from @studyinimagination.bsky.social essentially denouncing AI art in all forms and contexts. This is not an issue I have followed at all (being strictly a word person) and I’ll have to give the matter some thought.
May 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Very interested by comments from @studyinimagination.bsky.social essentially denouncing AI art in all forms and contexts. This is not an issue I have followed at all (being strictly a word person) and I’ll have to give the matter some thought.
I’ve been reading a book that keeps popping up on my social media. After six chapters, I’m terminally unimpressed. Have I given it a fair chance?
May 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’ve been reading a book that keeps popping up on my social media. After six chapters, I’m terminally unimpressed. Have I given it a fair chance?
Alejandro Kirk just hit an opposite-field three-run home run for the #bluejays, and what do you know, I did not hear the announcers use the expression “oppo taco“. Maybe it’s time MLB dropped that stupid commerciall
May 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Alejandro Kirk just hit an opposite-field three-run home run for the #bluejays, and what do you know, I did not hear the announcers use the expression “oppo taco“. Maybe it’s time MLB dropped that stupid commerciall