I don’t tend to look at all the talk about the power of social networking as anything more than hyperbole. That said, every once in a while, a notable example like the recent Iranian election comes along and reminds us all that certain fundamental things have changed. If you spotted the word “Trafigura” in your […]

Why do I always assume that any child who cries in public is just misbehaving? This morning at Tim Hortons, for example, there was this toddler just wailing her head off about God knows what. She was so loud, in fact, that her parents had to give up and drag her out of there. Why […]

I’ve been trying to break myself out of the habit of writing anything into my calendar that doesn’t have to be there. I’m a big fan of getting a lot done in a day, but sometimes I end up stacking the “to do” pile way too high. At the end of the day, I’ll have […]

Left Feet closed its Kensington Market shop back in September of this year. Evidently, they were unable to secure a new lease for the location they’d called home for nearly five years, and as a result they’re currently looking for a new place to set up shop. “While the store is in transition,” Steve the […]

This is the event I was telling you about. It’s happening two weeks from tonight at Augusta House, and I hope you all can make it. We want to go big with this one, so don’t be shy about spreading the word, and don’t mind me if it’s all I end up talking about for […]

The consensus that I’m hearing from a lot of friends this morning is that it’s great that Barack Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize – and now that he has, maybe he can finally get around to accomplishing something. Indeed, even this piece in the Huffington Post asserts that the honour itself is “enormously […]

I haven’t done much with the old blog lately. I’ve been posting fairly often, and defending my turf from punks, but that’s about it. At least, that’s how it might look to the untrained eye. A couple of weeks ago, I set up a basic private web server on my home network. It’s nothing fancy, […]

Last night’s edition of Strong Words was one of the best readings we’ve done all year. Bruce Hunter was great, Ramabai Espinet was great, and Terry Watada was great. It was very much the sort of compelling and eclectic reading that we try to do each month, and it has to be said that Spencer […]

By the time you get to be a certain age, there’s really nothing you can call your significant other that doesn’t sounds a little childish, or too formal, or otherwise inappropriate. “Significant other,” for example, sounds a bit too dry and pretentious. I’ve never really liked that one. Throughout the bulk of my relationship with […]

As I mentioned a little while back, Yo! Jamz is on hiatus at Augusta House for the time being. There may be some new events in the near future, but it’s not my place to tell you anything yet. All I can do is invite you to stay tuned. In the meantime, I’m working on […]