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Today, I found myself describing someone's accent as being "like cut glass," because that's the expression that first came...

Imagine you're craving coffee. A new coffee shop just opened up right across the street, so you decide to give it a try. The coffee is ...

Seen on Yonge St.: two small white puppies, possibly Bichone Frises, possibly Lhasa Apsos, trying to assert dominance over each other. Seen ...

Dear blind gentleman in the Eglinton station tunnels around 3:50 pm: I apologize for not walking you to the station myself when you asked me...

I highly recommend Vic-Tone Cleaners in North York. They're at 4866 Yonge St., which is a block north of Yonge & Sheppard (southwes...

Inspired by the guy in Sheppard station yelling at his female companion for descending the stairs so slowly. The Physics: In a high-heeled s...

I don't feel educated. By most standards I am, by a few standards I'm not. I've had job interviewers who didn't give me jo...

For me, the slang meaning of the word sick has always been "disgusting". In current adolescent parlance, the meaning of the word s...

The vast majority of human discourse occurred before I got here, so the vast majority of words and expressions have taken on certain connota...

Once again, they're talking about reinstating the draft as an anti-war measure, because lawmakers wouldn't want their children to be...

I've become very wary of the adjective "powerful" when used to describe software. It seems the more the word "powerful...

Since before I even started going grey, I've wanted to somehow colour my grey hairs some random third colour, like bright crayon red, wh...

Last spring, For Better or For Worse had Elizabeth suddenly wanting to move back down south. I didn't like this and thought it was out...

I was sitting in the subway, just behind the front door of the front car, engrossed in my book as usual, when the train stopped in the middl...

What surprises me most about income splitting is that it occurs to people in the first place. True, I currently have a one-person household...

On paper, using the numbers that everyone uses to calculate voter turnout, my own immediate family looks like it has 50% voter turnout. In r...

The basic premise is quite intriguing. A girl shows up in a family's vacation house. Everyone assumes that she's there with anothe...

The three races that I voted in have been called. The incumbent won for city councillor by a vast, vast margin, which surprises and perplexe...

1. First, someone wrote to Cary Tennis saying that her friend's boyfriend didn't want her to go on the bus in going-out clothes. ...