Those who follow my blog know there’s a constant and festering burr under my saddle about the exorbitant lengths of time it takes to complete road construction, anywhere. I’ve already vented about the two-year fiasco called maintaining the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto (Gardiner Expressway problem solved) and just last week about the subway versus above-ground transportation networks (More fiddle faddle on infrastructure). After working for…
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Better than British fans is something to be proud of?
When I first heard about the fate of the young men who made disrespectful and obscene comments to on-air CITY TV reporter Shauna Hunt who was covering a Toronto FC soccer match, my initial reaction was ambivalence. I thought that Shawn Simoes was treated a bit harshly by Hydro One when he was fired from his $107,000.00 per year job. Could they not have just…
Don’t look to me for sympathy
When Boomers were growing up in the fifties and sixties, Canadians were recognized as being among the highest money savers in the world. We were frugal, practical people who regularly deposited a bit of money into our savings account or purchased Canada Savings Bonds for emergencies and retirement. It’s no coincidence that the sixties is also when that ubiquitous and self-destructive little piece of plastic…
It’s that special time of year, once more
Each year spring offers up a bounty of wonderful sights, sounds and smells. There’s the bursting of new green buds on the trees, flowers poking through the warm earth and of course the welcome shedding of our heavy, dark winter clothes and boots. There’s one aspect of spring, however, that always leaves me frustrated and angry. Once the snow melts we’re once again confronted with…
Millennials know this much to be true
The Globe and Mail’s Careers section recently featured a piece by Nicole Gallucci entitled, “Five things I learned from millennials” that warrants a closer look. While acknowledging the level of comfort millennials have with technology and their forthrightness in insisting on authenticity and integrity in friendships, Gallucci’s entitlement versus enlightenment debate leans heavily towards enlightenment and I don’t entirely agree. Let’s take a closer look…
We’ve been published – again
My recent blog about how much I enjoyed the March issue of ELLE Canada was the result of how relevant and well-written their articles were that month. The March issue was dedicated to feminism which is a subject dear to my heart and I appreciated their coverage. So I wrote them a fan letter—actually I sent them a copy of my blog posting (You can’t…