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New: 1. Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer edited by John Lorinc, Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Re...

While searching for another old post, I came upon this old post responding to an advice column where the letter-writer wanted to avoid dis...

When there is a fire alarm in my building, the concierge announces "There is an alarm condition on the 3rd floor." That's wh...

I think internet conspiracy theories either are, or are being used as, trial balloons by the powers that be.  The powers that be are observi...

One of my many delightful eccentricities is that I don't normally use wifi. The vast, vast, vast majority of my interneting is done on m...

New: 1. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly ...

The biggest benefit of being a law-abiding citizen is credibility. If your job or your landlord or the kids' hockey team you want to coa...

Toronto Chief City Planner Jennifer Keesmaat tweeted a discussion from CityLab about whether adults should give up subway seats for childr...

From a recent Dear Prudence chat : Q. I lied to my mom ... how do I keep lying so I don’t get in trouble?: Last year, my mom was going ...

Working from home, I sometimes have the TV on during the day.  So every once in a while, I see programming get interrupted with "This i...

New: 1. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard 2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by ...

 From Captain Awkward : Hello Captain, My distant friend Sally and I went out to dinner and she started asking me about my past relati...

The following is (a tangent) from Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard. As usual, any typos are my own: ...

Recently, a greater than usual amount of instructions for political activism has been reaching me, and a common theme seems to be to telepho...

Looking for the awesome shoe repair place that, until very recently, was in Eglinton station? They've moved to the 2nd floor of the Ca...

Sometimes medical professionals insist on taking measure to protect the patient's fertility even when the patient is childfree and doesn...

New: 1. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow & Jean-Benoît Nadeau 2. Rogue One: A Sta...

I blogged before about how Reitman's broke my heart by discontinuing my jeans .  Just weeks later, they've done it again. During m...

I recently saw the movie King Charles III . The premise is that, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles ascends to the throne...