The Merriam-Webster dictionary editors announced their word of the year for 2025 on Monday – slop. Slop, as defined by that dictionary, is “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by […]
Canadian academic and philosopher Marshall McLuhan once wrote about technology that “we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” What he meant by this is that we create tools to do things, but […]
It’s unfortunate that Premier Ford has such a restrictive policy when it comes to reporters asking questions at press conferences. Had the opportunity to ask more than the only one question and one follow-up at […]
There is a growing trend within the Ontario government to concentrate power. It started in 1995, waned for a while in the 2000s, and since 2018 has ramped up efforts to eliminate other authorities. Premier […]
This is not an issue unique to one rural community; rather, it is common to many rural communities across the country — a place to hang out. Having raised four children successfully to adulthood, this […]
Last week’s federal budget should have been the primary focus of Members of Parliament in Ottawa. Instead, the budget was only one of three rings of the circus on Parliament Hill. Two of those rings […]
Too often, people are quick to point out problems but not offer any solutions. Clearly, there is a big problem with Canada Post. The national mail service is on track to lose another billion dollars […]
People who are in the wrong, and know they are in the wrong, hate having it pointed out to them. To take that one step further, a bully who knows they are doing wrong hates […]
Ontario’s education system has a lot of problems. Most of those problems can be attributed to restrictive funding formulas, chronic underfunding of programs, and having four publicly funded systems that compete against each other on […]
I never had the privilege of being taught in school by Wendy Gibb, but I had the honour of working with her for nearly 10 years. When I restarted my original career vocation of print […]
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