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The year is some point in the 90s. The place is my parents' house. The doorbell rings. For some reason, I answer. An impossibly tiny...

Via Traffic Services: The only time you are allowed to enter onto the road way at a signalized intersection is when the pedestrian control f...

This is an analogy for a) people who insist that they should be able to use offensive language (as opposed to "politically correct...

Several times in my life, I've heard an idea that was really verging on too complicated or too outside my expertise for me to understand...

I'm asking non-Canadians because you're more likely to be able to give an objective opinion without any explicit or subconscious par...

The second item in the Reverso English-French dictionary entry for "outsider" : (without links to company) personne f recrutée ...

We start with a cradle-to-grave guaranteed income, let's say $20,000 a year (indexed). However, if you are employed, then the employer g...

1. The time limit is per question. In real IQ tests, the time limit is for the section or for the whole test, so you can speed through the...

The problem with protest rallies is ultimately they are boring and not particularly productive. You're standing there in a crowd while ...

Several Jane Austen novels are based on the concept of entails, where an estate could only be inherited by a male heir, and daughters were l...

I was reading some statements from a politician who is more right-wing than I'm comfortable with, and I found myself whimpering at the s...

Last letter in today's column: DEAR ABBY: I'm having a dispute with my husband. He thinks that you screw in a lightbulb clockwise. I...

Synthehol!

What if US health insurance companies weren't taxed on their earnings, and were instead taxed on the value of the claims they decline? ...

Via Slap : [Canada Post's new] policies, which came into effect just over a year ago, now mandate that all “sexually suggestive” admail—...

Dear Toronto Star: How come an article that gets a graphic content warning on your website appears on the front page, above the fold, with ...

Mentioned frequently and matter-of-factly in the news is that the military is sending search-and-rescue and other disaster-relief teams to H...

If you've ever had the pleasure of owning a particularly well-designed piece of clothing, you'll know that they work with your body ...

In October, I received an email from Rogers offering me a significantly better price on my existing home phone service. Being the procrasti...