Well, it’s been quite a week for Canada, with the nation celebrating its 159th birthday and three days later our World Cup men’s team putting up a gutsy, physical effort against the powerhouse Moroccan side.
A hat trick? In soccer? I’m sorry…football?!
Thank you Jonathan David for at least trying to make the World Cup more accessible for part-time fans of “The Beautiful Game.”
David’s third...
I try to make this column a Donald Trump-free space. But, man, some weeks it’s a really difficult thing to pull off.
The man spends an unhealthy amount of time in my head. In...
Picture it: Sherbourne Street in Toronto, July 17, 1994.
With apologies to Sophia Petrillo of Golden Girls fame, this was when my Cape Breton propensity for politeness made for one very long, dry evening.
Did you know that all cars sold in the province of Quebec come off the assembly line with a thinner coat of paint than cars sold elsewhere in the country?
I can’t actually prove...
This is not a column I ever thought I’d write.
Growing up, there were three constants in my life: a near crippling anxiety that was characterized as “shyness;” an obsession with the Toronto Maple...
Spend about 60 years with someone and some things are bound to rub off.
I was at work the other day and a colleague left me to retrieve something from the backroom. She had...
“But your honour.”
The pleading voice coming from my TV stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t just the voice, though, but the words that seemed familiar.
As I rounded the...
AP Photo/Chris O'Meara. NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Although it was four months before my...
How often have you attempted to put on a t-shirt in a dark bedroom, only to find you’ve put it on backwards?
If you’re like me, your success rate isn’t very good. I haven’t...