Yes, we can ask for better, richer, greener, more equitable and healthier places to live. We should, too. It was an email I’d been expecting. We all knew Catherine McKenney would take a little time to rest from the gruelling mayoral campaign and come back with a different project to carry forward their vision of what a good city looks like. The announcement happened at Impact Hub on…

Dress codes belong to… actually, they don’t belong anywhere. Burn ‘em. Among the missteps I’ve had the misfortune of taking in my life, two years as morning face on the brashly conservative (or, rather, Conservative) Sun News Network has to be way up there with getting bangs when what’s-his-name dumped me. You can see that profound unhappiness reflected in the above…

Qui se ressemble, s’assemble. Guess who’s going to remember that. Some people are aghast that the leader of his majesty’s opposition gave a talk to a group that denies the many documented evils of residential schools. The fact that this news is coming out mere days after reports suggesting ground penetrating radar had identified 2,000 “areas of interest” at a…

Schools are right to respect the identity, names and pronouns of students, but that doesn’t go nearly far enough. Parents who deliberately harm they kids should be prosecuted. I don’t know how I managed to miss this piece the first time it ran but here I am with a vengeance…

Wherein I ask readers what fragrance they’d use to describe Ottawa. My column this week is about smells and how we’d describe Ottawa with our noses. I offered a few suggestions and asked readers to submit their own. …

People who can’t control their emotions are also lousy at making anything work. “I don’t like rage,” said the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre, the exact same Pierre Poilievre who got elected leader of his party by the very rage he’s now denouncing. He’s like Judas Iscariot, minus the charm. I suppose it was to be expected. He’s pretty obnoxious as…

You’d think, with the snow we get, that we’d be better at handling it. It started innocently enough with a Boxing Day 10km run I thought would be decent enough given the time elapsed since the December 23 storm. I’d gone out the day before for a jolly 6km, and the sidewalks then were very messy. …

How do you explain the perplexing mystery that sees people who do not appreciate toxic masculinity refusing to vote for it? My good friend Jess sent me a message asking how much she’d have to pay me to write about a tweet my old bud Charles Adler wrote about Pierre Poilievre’s disastrous polling among women. You know me, I can’t resist a good bargain. Charles says that during his half-century as…

Unless of course you don’t believe in science. A study that was recently published in The Lancet says, and I quote: “Based on official reported COVID-19 deaths, we estimated that vaccinations prevented 14·4 million (95% credible interval [Crl] 13·7–15·9) deaths from COVID-19 in 185 countries and territories between Dec 8, 2020, and Dec 8, 2021.” There are more…