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[For DJL] Who designed the dial on the paper towel dispenser? You know, that round dial with the two tear drop depressions, in a kind of...

We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...

(This fairy-tale was not stolen from Gwen Lawson.) There once lived a alley-peasant-princess in the Kingdom of Realphlippers. As was the...

In recent weeks I've come across many public declarations (in person, on the news, and on social media) claiming “no refugee has ever...

I was reading a book about infinity. In it, the author, not a physicist, deviates into a discussion of the quantum world. He explains how...

This Omar Khadr case is far more interesting than the banter in your local or national paper, on the evening news or on Twitter. ​ What I...

"You're not like the other boys", a voice said from over my left shoulder. That had to be the cheesiest pickup line ever, I thought as I...

I don't like to think of time in the conventional manner. I once read a definition of time as, “a measure of change”. I always liked...

Since 2016 there's been much said about Nazis. Yet, somehow, despite all the talk and tweeting and counter protesting I feel we've...

On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...

iTunes – that place billions of people acquire and consume their music, movies, podcasts, and such – is essentially unusable, as far as I...

I wish you could see what I'm seeing. I've now had three friends, in three very different situations, living in three different...

The Globe and Mail recently published an article entitled "Why female cooks stay out of the kitchen", authored by a Toronto restaurant...

​​Today is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. All week CBC has been flush with related articles, reports, videos, and...

In August 2016 I shipped my belongings from Ontario to Alberta on Greyhound. The shipment was in two parts with two separate tracking...

We’ve spent two years getting a worker-owned co-op from conception to construction. The business is a for-profit bakery in the heart of...

​​Nobody wants to hear anything more about the US election or about its victor; but, just for the record, I'd like to make two...

​​​I don't think I understand the pending march on Washington. Some have said they're marching in the name of justice and in opposition...

I've been mildly criticized of “never asking questions” of other people. This has been brought up several times over the last few years...

At 37 I've watched many acquaintances and friends and much of my family die. I feel like I've seen the gamut, and in everyone from the...

In early 2016 my father officially retired and at the same time his cancer started acting up. His blood was funky and his liver was...

​​​The following is just the sort of thing I see that stops me in my tracks almost every day. Today I was walking past a large corporate...

It was July 29, 2016 when I came across an amazing article written by Carl Zimmer, my favourite science writer. The piece, titled...

(First published by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation) Like most thirty-somethings I've worked in many different fields: from...