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Last year, I proposed changing the meaning of the word "circumnavigate" . In today's Star: "On the merits of circumnaviga...

My internet's been down for nearly three days with some complicated problem that's maybe three levels more complicated than I can un...

I'm on the subway juggling my purse, book, and a number of shopping bags, one of which contains a gorgeous batch of farm-fresh Cortland ...

I've blogged before about this weird pattern of my blog posts becoming political strategy. That pattern seems to be continuing. Yester...

In the wake of last night's election results, here's the plan: 1. Everyone tell Rob Ford what we need from our city . Mr. Ford has ...

This should be a tweet, but I couldn't get it down to 140. Real blog posts coming later. My sister and I both received voter registratio...

You know how movies set in New York City are disproportionately set in that tiny window of fall when there's a perfect ratio of colourfu...

Dear fellow citizens who are planning not to vote: I assume you're planning not to vote because none of the candidates whom the media ha...

It's a rainy Sunday morning. I'm just out of the shower with my hair sopping wet. I sleepwalk into the kitchen to make coffee...on...

I am not at all happy with how the media has been handling this Toronto election. I think the electioneering started far too early, and I...

The City of Toronto tells its residents each winter to “be nice, clear your ice,” yet it has 6,300 addresses on file of people who cannot. I...

For money, I translate other languages into English. For fun, I translate English into English. Today, I would like to translate the follo...

From Miss Conduct's National Coming Out Day post : It is the person who is making the extraordinary claim who needs to produce extraordi...

I've been looking at Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project , and it occurs to me that it's more broadly applicable. I must emphas...

The more I think about it, the more I think there's no point in strategic voting for the position of mayor of Toronto. The mayor only g...

Some people have said the fact that the G20 charges were dropped means that everything's fine, the system is working like it's suppo...

I can't quite seem to muster up a proper blog entry today, so I thought I'd update you on how my Entitlement is going. (If you'...

The most important of the many many things I've learned from Eddie Izzard is how to be brave and confident by admitting your shortcoming...

This article intrigues me, because it might possibly explain some cognitive dissonance I've been experiencing. When the NDP won governm...