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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...

I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...

Me: a traveler passing through. Emma: a gainfully employed husband and father. We were talking about what it's like to live in Kampala....

Several times during my undergrad I had people suggest to me that I couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have trouble learning...

While I had no jet lag of any kind it has been a slow and steamy transition from -32 Calgary to feeling comfortable in equatorial Africa....

In 2018, it seems weekly we have another report or op-ed hitting home how "America is so divided" and "never been so divided." I read...

Here's a question: Who are toilets for? No, seriously. Toilets are something I very rarely hear anyone talking (or, more appropriately,...

I just heard about Aziz Ansari. I worry you won't read the victim's words and just assume this case to be like most of the others. It is...

Carla: “I think Weinstein, Spacey, et al have fundamentally destroyed those ideas.”​ Carlos: “You can't say that.” ​Carla: “I just did....

The caterpillar cuts a path of pure devastation through the ecosystem it is born into. It consumes everything it can find, eating...

A favourite statement regularly heard repeated in recent months is that “people don't lie about abuse.” This is sometimes modified to...

[For DJL] Who designed the dial on the paper towel dispenser? You know, that round dial with the two tear drop depressions, in a kind of...

We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...

(This fairy-tale was not stolen from Gwen Lawson.) There once lived a alley-peasant-princess in the Kingdom of Realphlippers. As was the...

In recent weeks I've come across many public declarations (in person, on the news, and on social media) claiming “no refugee has ever...

I was reading a book about infinity. In it, the author, not a physicist, deviates into a discussion of the quantum world. He explains how...

This Omar Khadr case is far more interesting than the banter in your local or national paper, on the evening news or on Twitter. ​ What I...

"You're not like the other boys", a voice said from over my left shoulder. That had to be the cheesiest pickup line ever, I thought as I...

I don't like to think of time in the conventional manner. I once read a definition of time as, “a measure of change”. I always liked...

Since 2016 there's been much said about Nazis. Yet, somehow, despite all the talk and tweeting and counter protesting I feel we've...

On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...

iTunes – that place billions of people acquire and consume their music, movies, podcasts, and such – is essentially unusable, as far as I...

I wish you could see what I'm seeing. I've now had three friends, in three very different situations, living in three different...

The Globe and Mail recently published an article entitled "Why female cooks stay out of the kitchen", authored by a Toronto restaurant...