Apr 15, 20186 min read
KIDNAPPINGS
One afternoon in Kampala I was out running errands when I decided to hail a boda-boda (a motorcycle taxi and the most common public...
Jun 6, 20172 min read
LEGACY
On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...
Nov 3, 20168 min read
WE ALL LIVE
At 37 I've watched many acquaintances and friends and much of my family die. I feel like I've seen the gamut, and in everyone from the...
Feb 29, 20165 min read
STICKING TO ONE’S GUNS
The Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, produced and long and insufferable video diatribe on physician-assisted suicide. His...
Jan 11, 201512 min read
CHARLIE WHO?
Regarding the issues surrounding Charlie Hebdo, and the murders that recently took place in France, many folks I know have quoted or...
Jan 1, 20154 min read
HOW TO SAVE LIVES
Hamilton RIDE checks snag 30 impaired drivers. Hamilton chapter president for Mothers Against Drunk Driving says RIDE program is...
Dec 2, 20137 min read
HYPOCRISY
(Co-authored with Rick Waines) December 1st, World AIDS Day, came and went with the same coverage we’ve come to expect. Once again this...
Oct 12, 20115 min read
THE WHOLE CANOEIST
“Body of missing canoeist recovered”, the newspaper headline reads. That can't possibly be what is meant, can it? They didn't find the...
Oct 10, 20117 min read
DIRTY JOBS (SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT)
Steve Jobs was responsible for some great things. The impact he had in personal computing, publishing, telecommunications, music, and...
Jan 30, 201016 min read
THE DOOR
Alas, it was New Year's Eve and, against my keen hermit instincts and all logical reasoning, I had agreed to go out and “party”, whatever...
