“The medium is the message”, said Marshall McLuhan 60 years ago. Of course it does make a difference: Whether you’re watching a documentary, listening to a podcast, seeing a post on social media, or hearing from someone entrenched in an issue. All of these will warp the character of whatever it is you’re interacting with […]
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Good Intentions Don’t Build Homes They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Don’t dwell on what you meant to happen; focus on what does. Intentions mean little if results never materialize. This lesson applies to life, business, and politics, and nowhere more urgently than in housing. Toronto’s housing crisis will
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Where do you get your news? It’s a question I’ve been asking people a lot recently. I put out a poll on my socials last year and again this week. Both times the data came back and really surprised me. It was certainly an imperfect study, the vast majority of people didn’t respond, and there’s
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I stumbled upon a job posting online, It pays $160,000 a year.“The Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of British Columbia (UBC) invite applications for a CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics.” It goes on: “[…in an effort to] sustain the participation of people with disabilities, Indigenous people, racialized people,
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I spent the better part of a decade leading a community choir in Toronto. It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. But in late 2024, I felt like I needed to leave. I was so hung up on the whole experience last December that I decided to write a letter to
There’s a fantastic 1990 Coen Brothers Gangster film called Miller’s Crossing that didn’t seem to permeate the mainstream. Maybe you’ve seen it. In the opening sequence, Jonny Casper (Gasparo) the Italian gangster has a monologue that I like to quote. In it, he exclaims to his rival, the Irish gang leader Leo O’Bannon that he
Do I have to say it? It is wrong to kill people. I feel galvanized to speak about this. I had no idea who Charlie Kirk was. For whatever reason, he never crossed my newsfeed and I don’t know anything about what his views were. I didn’t know what he stood for, but I do
So there’s a big hockey game tonight. Canada and the USA! The first time in 10 years, we’ll get to know which country has supremacy when it comes to hockey. With everything going on in the news and with this tournament concluding, people are talking about what it even means to be Canadian anymore. Always
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