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There is a sentence that appears on screen near the very beginning of Celeste — before the first level, before the music swells, before you have died even once. Madeline, the game’s protagonist, sits alone on a mountainside in the dark, and the words appear like a quiet instruction, or a dare: You can do […]

I didn’t expect to be the oldest person in the room. Not by much, at least. When I enrolled in Humber Polytechnic’s postgraduate Data Analytics program last September, I had a vague mental image of returning students — people mid-career, pivoting, re-skilling. People like me. What I found instead was something far more interesting, and

Podcast Feed Last year I was invited to give a D’var (speech/address) Torah at my synagogue. It was two weeks ahead of Passover so I decided to take the opportunity to speak on my favourite holiday. I went through the timeline of all the Passover’s I had experienced thus far. Nights at my grandmother’s place

Podcast Feed “Gentlemen!” I exclaim as I roll into the dressing room three minutes before I’m supposed to be on the ice. It’s 7:57 AM on a weekday morning at a rink in midtown Toronto, and I am here to play hockey. There’s no better way to start the day. Despite the grogginess, the men

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When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith welcomed Ottawa’s decision to drop the federal EV mandate — requiring all new vehicles sold by 2035 to be electric — her reaction was telling. She called it overdue. Necessary. Pragmatic. And then, almost in the same breath, she expressed frustration with something that had nothing to do with cars:

Nelson Mandela once said that “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” It is a line that has never felt more relevant than it does right now in our country. There is a version of Canadian childhood that lives comfortably in the national

I’ve been quiet about this for a while. Not because I didn’t have something to say – but because I wasn’t sure I had the right words yet. I’m still not sure I do. But something has shifted in this country (and city), and I feel it in a way that is hard to articulate

Eleven seasons. That’s not a hobby — that’s a commitment. Eleven years of pre-draft anxiety, waiver wire scrambles at midnight, and the very specific kind of heartbreak that comes from watching your star pitcher get scratched from his start due to a nagging injury. If you’ve ever played fantasy baseball, you know exactly what I’m

Three synagogues in the city of Toronto were shot at this week. For Jews in Toronto and the GTA, this experience has become routine. It is normalized. Luckily, no one has been hurt or killed yet. But many are unable to sit and wait for help anymore. As I wrote in the end of my