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"Dum, dum dee dum, - yawn- kids are off to bed after watching Bringing up Baby and Casablanca with the old man, I've poured myself...

Not exactly juggling, but somewhere in the neighbourhood. Some people have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time. I suspect this ...

Seriously, can we just appoint Stephen Fry as Emperor of the Earth for Life? Sensible, compassionate, well-read, funny and one of the most a...

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those nice clean-cut young men with the short-sleeved white dress shirts and neckties are doing missionary work of another sort. Tweet

Want to get your money for nothing and your clicks for free? Here's the plan: 1. Find venture capitalist with deep pockets 2. Write p...

Given the propensity of FOX news to put GOP 'personalities' on the payroll and their willingness to call close elections in favour ...

Last night, I was killing a few minutes scanning my twitter feed and lo and behold I find the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein taking a sh...

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Right-wing nut jobs believe some incredibly weird shit: "Cyclists are responsible for gridlock." Only 1.3 % of Ppl rides a bi...

So another white guy shoots and kills another black kid , what's the excuse this time? MILWAUKEE (AP) — The attorney for a Milwaukee...

I'm noticing a disturbing trend in the newspaper copy I edit. Writers are assuming a stunning lack of cultural literacy in readers and d...

So today, Toronto got more than 90 mm of rain in a couple of hours and low-lying areas of the city, including major highways and rail links ...

RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 - July 2,  1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway's 1954 Nobel acceptance s...

Look at any newspaper, watch any newscast, and compare the amount of space and time given to actual hard news (breaking events, politics,...

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The Pier 21 Immigration museum in Halifax commissioned a Toronto production firm to collect about 100 immigrant stories. This is my son...

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