The Plague-Ground – Librarians are first-responders
No other public library system in the world is bigger and busier than Toronto’s. Not New York. Not London. Us. Nearly 70 per cent of
No other public library system in the world is bigger and busier than Toronto’s. Not New York. Not London. Us. Nearly 70 per cent of
I’ve always wanted to write a fund-raising appeal that starts with that question. You have money. We need money. Give it to us. Please. What
Last month, The New York Times reported on the rise of abortions by telemedicine. A doctor assesses the woman online. Then, if she is ‘approved’,
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to spend a day exploring a part of the world that billions of us visit every day,
Commencement Speech season started this weekend with Barack Obama delivering two of them online: one to high school students and one to the graduates of
When I was half my age, I used to believe that idea from Robert Frost. Now, I’m more into the “in length” part of life’s
When was the last time you saw those three words in a sentence? Applied to Ottawa? In a pandemic? Exactly. Our expectation of speedy service
I heard this from Heather Ross who was speculating why fewer people seem to be having heart attacks during the pandemic than before. Maybe it’s
Thirty years ago today, I left Talbott Recovery Center in Atlanta where I’d been in treatment for four months for cocaine addiction. I flew home
Yesterday, I tripped over one of those New Yorker articles that snatches you and carries you into the black holes of a subject you knew
I’ve noticed something odd in my Zoom calls, and maybe you have too. It’s that they sound better when the video is Off than when
No, and for three reasons: it’s hard to get together, and even if you do, you’ll likely get caught. What’s more, if you get caught
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