Female boxers still fighting for respect
My predictions for 2012
Bad news in a company town
Honey, the assassins called again
The middle-aged lady sitting next to me on the plane leaned over and confessed....
If we could see into the future, how our lives would be different. I...
It’s the kind of story that seems too far-fetched, too ridiculous to be true....
We try to lead good lives. We help old ladies cross the street. We...
The middle-aged lady sitting next to me on the plane leaned over and confessed. “I don’t think women should be boxing. It doesn’t seem right to me,” she said. This was after I’d just told her I had spent the week in Sydney, N. S., covering the Canadian amateur boxing championships for my newspaper, where men and women were fighting. It was a good thing she kept her voice down. In the seat behind her was Mandy Bujold, Kitchener’s seven-time national flyweight champion. Two...
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If we could see into the future, how our lives would be different. I would probably never have grown that mullet in Grade 3, for starters. But enough about that. On this day, as another December prepares to fade from view, we’re looking forward, not back. Without further delay, here at my predictions for 2012. • You will wake up the morning after New Year’s Eve with a very bad headache, gaps in your memory and a lampshade for a hat. Strangely, your face...
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It’s the kind of story that seems too far-fetched, too ridiculous to be true. Two top executives from the biggest company in the land get so stinko on an overnight flight to Beijing that the pilot has to make an emergency detour hours out of the way just to have them arrested. When the story broke last week, media from around the world ran with the story, almost gleefully. Here were two suits from that struggling smartphone giant Research In Motion, flying first class...
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We try to lead good lives. We help old ladies cross the street. We donate to charity and always call our mother on her birthday. So, doesn’t it just seem so terribly unfair when an assassin is hired to kill you, all for a measly $80,000? The Ontario Provincial Police in Wellington County recently alerted citizens to a scam letter circulating around local e-mail inboxes. The letter begins, “Hello, how are you doing today? I was paid to assassinate you, but I felt it...
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Shhhh, use your inside voice. That’s better. Our fair city, it turns out, has a problem with noise. And city hall, like an angry father banging on the bedroom door, looks like it’s finally had it with all the racket. Just this week, two residents told city councillors they need to crack down on the loud motorcycles and cars that roar up and down our streets with annoying after-market mufflers and amplifiers, causing all kinds of headaches. This, not so surprisingly, hasn’t sat well...
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At the very least, give them an award for creativity. Guelph residents wrote impassioned letters and made pleas to city council this week voicing their opposition to a proposed condo building at 180 Gordon St., near the Speed River. One man summed it all up by saying the whole project is “downright disrespectful to… a very sensitive piece of land,” namely, a small park next door. You see, it’s not that they’re opposed to a condo development in their neighbourhood — why, that’s preposterous,...
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The middle-aged lady sitting next to me on the plane leaned over and confessed....
If we could see into the future, how our lives would be different. I...
It’s the kind of story that seems too far-fetched, too ridiculous to be true....
We try to lead good lives. We help old ladies cross the street. We...
Shhhh, use your inside voice. That’s better. Our fair city, it turns out, has...
At the very least, give them an award for creativity. Guelph residents wrote impassioned...
Behind all the screaming and shouting over tax breaks for “foreigners” and rising hydro...
I don’t need to tell you the news from the south has not been...
At least now I know my blood is too thick for the South Pacific....
First, they legalized bikinis. And now they want to relax Ontario’s liquor laws? What’s...
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