On April 23, Ontario’s health officer, Dr. Kieran Moore, reconfirmed the province’s mask mandate, four days before the mandate was scheduled to be lifted altogether.…
Really? The best way to win a race is to run slowly and to never vary your pace? This dubious maxim is from Aesop’s fable…
The phrase was originally meant literally. In John Fitzherbert’s 1534 Book of Husbandry, he warns shepherds that they had better train their dogs to herd…
“And now go,” Neil Gaiman urged his audience at the end of his commencement speech at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, in 2015.…
This phrase comes from Lucretius, who in his poem De Rerum Natura, sums up all the scientific knowledge known in the first century before the…
In anticipation of the coming election campaign, I thought it would be useful to draw up a short list of appropriate terms of abuse for…
Walking up from the Banff townsite to the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity one evening, I saw movement on the path ahead of me.…
For the past month I have been away from home. First in Vancouver, teaching a creative nonfiction summer course at the University of British Columbia,…
There are few cats in San Miguel de Allende. In the three years we’ve been going to Mexico for the winter, we’ve seen maybe half…
A few nights ago, we watched the first episode of Homeland (we binge watch, which, according to a recent Netflix poll, is how 76 percent of viewers…