WOO HOO!!! There I was listening to Macca, and the whole Rob Ford thing was blowing sky-high!!!!!! Anna called to let me know that the police have announced they possess the infamous video of the

Finally got to Sunrise Records this morning to buy the new Macca CD. I love that place – one of the few independents left. They sell records, tickets, t-shirts, and today, crazy Hallowe’en masks. I’m

Margaret Atwood in Berlin in 1984, writing “The Handmaid’s Tale”. A merry life. 

A terrific article about being asked to write for free … which I am posting, yes, without paying royalties. I used to publish many articles in “Facts and Arguments” in the “Globe,” which paid a

We have a by-election coming up in my riding Toronto Centre, to replace the irreplaceable Bob Rae, one of the tragic figures of Canadian politics – if it hadn’t been for his cowardly party and

Thrilling event last night – the opening night of the International Festival of Authors, a fundraiser for PEN Canada, featuring Stephen King and his younger son, fellow novelist Owen King. I’d already bought my ticket

I learned something valuable tonight about my own impatience. I was on a panel at U of T, as listed below, about Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell.” I’d enjoyed it on my first viewing, when

The Hart House Conscious Activism Documentary Series presents:             Wednesday, October 23 6.30 pm, Hart House Debates Room Stories We Tell   Directed by Sarah Polley, 2012 108 mins Stories We Tell is an inspired,

This morning, I went down to Britannia Park for my daily walk, thankful, as I am every time, that my mother and aunt chose to live near this heavenly park on the Ottawa River. It

This is my mother’s patch of the communal garden below her condo. Thrilled to see it still so colourful.  Britannia Park, my saviour every time I visit.  The view from my aunt’s balcony – the