“Hi, my name’s Neil!” says the guy, loudly, as he turns the corner right in front of me and moves into my way. I’m walking home from work, it’s just after 5PM and starting to get dark. The temperature is 4°, unseasonably warm for January—a nice night to walk home. I have to stop, because …
Category Archive: Events
Jan 10 2012
Egyptian women cane morality police
You go, grrrlz! Post-revolution gangs of young men trying to enforce Sharia law in the Nile delta town of Benha, Egypt, found themselves on the receiving end this week. According to reports in the Egyptian news media: Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt …
Dec 31 2011
100 Strangers on New Year’s Eve
Walking home along King West today (after braving the crowds at the LCBO to buy a bottle of bubbly for tonight’s New Year’s Eve festivities, which in our case involves sitting at home with cheese, hummus, bread, olives, bruschetta, wine, and a selection of our favourite pre-recorded TV shows), I saw a young couple in front of me with cameras …
Dec 16 2011
Kids sometimes get bad presents
When my little nephew Robert was around 5 or 6 years old, he told me to buy him a toy truck for Christmas. He had a specific truck in mind and even told me where I could buy it. I remember telling him that when we were kids my family didn’t have much money and that our …
Nov 26 2011
Me, in a church? What’s that all about?
This isn’t something that happens very often. I’m at Christ Church Deer Park on Yonge Street just north of St. Claire. It’s a very nice church. Quite beautiful, in fact, with its vaulted wooden ceiling and stained glass windows. However, I’m not here to pray or to kowtow to things immaterial, but to listen to the …
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I was born in England, spent part of my childhood in Zambia and eventually immigrated to Canada. This is a blog about the news and events in my life, my interests in politics, religion, human rights, science, reason, and the odd post here and there about my cats.
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