“Where’s your Worster sauce?” “My what?” A wry smile is already beginning to appear on the face of the young grocery store employee as he continues to tear open boxes of...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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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