“Just because I’m still on vacation,” I tweeted this morning, “doesn’t mean I can’t get up at 6:00 AM with my kid.” Within minutes, I got a reply from my friend and fellow parent Mike Beltzner, reminding me that all “vacation” means these days is “a period of time when I don’t go to work.” […]

I’m one of those suckers who keeps thinking he’s got a good idea for a blog. Week after week, a new idea hits me. “Forget writing a single-serving take on this issue on one of many my existing outlets!” I think. “I need to create a whole new platform for this unproven idea!” I’ve gotten […]

I got an email from my web hosting provider this morning, advising me that they’d suspended service at everyonesadj.ca. Apparently, if you code your own signup form, and you let it reside online for three or four years without any checks or updates, some unscrupulous individual can come along and hack it for spamming purposes. […]

One year ago today, my daughter was born. In fact, at around this point in the morning, they wheeled my recovering wife away and left me alone with a brand new baby. A year ago exactly, we were sitting alone in a delivery room, gawking at each other and wondering “Well, what now?” It’s an […]

“Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation,” David Allen of GTD fame argues, “but it’s not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others.” That’s […]

Here’s an excerpt from an email the good people at RaBIT sent to their mailing list in Saturday evening, following the leadership convention held by the Ontario Liberal Party: “Just moments ago, the Ontario Liberal Party chose Kathleen Wynne as our new premier. “The Liberal Party – and all other parties – use runoffs to […]

My generous and literary wife was kind enough to give me a refurbished Kobo as an early Valentines Day present. We’re going on vacation with my family at the end of the week, and it’s going to be a great opportunity to catch up on some reading. But since our luggage for any trip these […]

Today’s the day that our MPs head back to the Hill to resume Parliament, and Canadians across the country are marking the occasion with a day of action designed to unify our nation’s progressive social movements. It’s all happening under the banner of Common Causes, which is “an assembly of social movements dedicated to defending […]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a worldwide memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust. Today’s date was chosen and designated by the United Nations in November of 2005, because it’s the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviets. Interestingly, the UN’s original resolution seems designed to stick it to the Holocaust deniers. […]

When the verdict came down on Rob Ford in November, I was surprised. I wasn’t a lawyer, but I felt fairly certain that the judge in question could, and would, have found a loophole that would have enabled a ruling in Ford’s favour. As we now know, I was wrong. When the appeal decision came […]