- Apr 15, 2018
- 6 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 8 min
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, 2016
- 5 min
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, 2015
- 12 min
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, 2015
- 4 min
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, 2013
- 7 min
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, 2011
- 5 min
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, 2011
- 7 min
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, 2010
- 16 min
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...