Elizabeth May — On this Thanksgiving weekend, I think we are all drawn toward the counting of blessings. As my new book tries to set out, I think of “who we are” as a people and as a nation. And ...
Read More »Tank, I’m afraid, has turned into a canine racist, eh!
Frank Touby — Tank spent his first night back in St. Lawrence Neighbourhood on very familiar ground. Not nearly as free-wheeling as he could be at our Lake Erie cottage, but in a known and treasured environment. He visited his ...
Read More »Toronto Waterfront questions for John Tory as mayor
Brian Iler — We at CommunityAIR have been mystified by John Tory’s silence on his vision for our Waterfront. The choices are actually quite stark: continue the magnificent work of Waterfront Toronto, or allow a noisy filthy industrial use to ...
Read More »Tank & his new family return to good ol’ St. Lawrence N’hood
We’re back in Toronto as the week comes to an end and Thanksgiving looms large. It’s good to be back in our St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. The Lake Erie cottage was a wonderful break and a time for us to create ...
Read More »Hand-crank multi-tool for paranoid automobile travellers
James Careless — Christmas is approaching, which means present-buying is about to begin in earnest. Thankfully, the Gadget Zone has been doing some pre-shopping on your behalf! Here are some cool tech gifts that have crossed our desk recently. The ...
Read More »I’m being stalked by a very well-known admirer
Frank Touby — I have a stalker. As we start just thinking in terms of packing up to return to Toronto for Thanksgiving and prepare to leave the Lake Erie shore, Tank remains fixated mainly on me. He’s listening to ...
Read More »Heat savings over hardwood: home-buyer desires shift
Ashley Lockyer — The Canadian dream home has a new laundry list of “must haves” Utility bills can cost a homeowner even more when they go to sell their property according to the Century 21 Canadian Home Critics Survey. the ...
Read More »ISIL: A U.S. scam from decapitation to Islamophobia
Ismail Salami, PhD — With the ISIL terrorists mounting more gory adventurism in Syria and Iraq and capturing villages and towns, there seems to be no tangible impediment to stop this influx of terror. The ghastly images circulated freely by ...
Read More »John Tory is the perfect fit for this highly visible job
Frank Touby — John Tory is a magnificent thinker and communicator in the right forum. He has found that métier at CFRB, the AM talk-radio station at 1010 on the dial whose call letters stand for Canada’s First Rogers Broadcast. ...
Read More »Tory would be respectable mayor, but we need more
John Sewell — A prediction that John Tory will take the election as the next Toronto mayor seems fairly safe at this point a few weeks before election day. He has the backing of leading Ontario figures in both the ...
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