A story emerged from a Grand Prairie, Alberta courtroom recently that was so ridiculous that one must wonder how something like this would make it to court in the first place. Two young boys,...
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...
It was my first taste of live music that wasn’t played on a church organ, and I couldn’t have been more captivated had John Lennon himself entered our Grade 3 classroom and started playing the opening riff...
Have you had a stroke or heart attack this week, been involved a fatal motor vehicle accident, suffered a workplace injury, or been handed an extremely harsh sentence by a sleep-deprived judge? Statistics show...
By Dave MacNeil It was a night I won’t remember forever. Thanks to the Milano Cortina Olympics, there will be no Hockey Night in Canada this Saturday. But if there was,...
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...
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...
We can now edit a baby’s genes before birth to counter life-threatening conditions like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, so can someone please tell me why we still have to suffer the indignity of the Johnny shirt...
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...
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...




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