The words we use
The words we use Sometimes I don’t know what’s wrong with me: I spend my life trying to convince women to like me and then I go and write this. Of course, not all prostitutes are women and the rights and safety of prostitutes shouldn’t be solely a women’s issue and language is something everyone […]
Vengeance is Ford’s
Vengeance is Ford’s My old friend @cityslikr runs a great blog called All Fired Up in the Big Smoke, which is all about Toronto politics. He claims he will buy me two drinks for every guest post I write and you can read my latest offering here. It’s about Mayor Rob Ford and the triumph of […]
If Toronto’s Mayors Were Maple Leafs
If Toronto’s Mayors Were Maple Leafs Last September, during the municipal election, Shawn Micallef wrote a perspicacious open letter to George Smitherman in Eye Weekly (now known as The Grid). Micallef urged the Toronto mayoral candidate to be more like Wendel Clark and less like Tie Domi. Although I am not a Maple Leaf fan, I’ve watched the team […]