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Social media howled at the latest instalment of Autopilot outrage. It showed the driver of a Tesla, in what appeared to be a state of deep slumber, motoring along the Queen Elizabeth Way in southern Ontario while the vehicle used Autopilot to navigate. Of course,…

f you want to play, you’ve got to pay. You won’t find this philosophy written in the margins of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, nor carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty, but it permeates most of our post-capitalist-midday-Marxist-pre-apocalypse society. Congestion…

There are trips and there are drives. Trips are made back and forth without much fanfare. You make a “trip” to the store. Drives leave an impression. Drives are tied to an occasion or special destination. You’ll always remember the first time you drove…

Halloween is up for grabs this year. Like everything else, COVID-19 has put the kibosh on it. Will kids be allowed to trick or treat? Will candy-givers deliver their confections via drain pipe or hockey stick? Will somebody dress up as a sexy kitten?

Everyone should know that the best way to navigate an intersection when the lights are out is to treat it like a four-way stop. The law, at least in Ontario, says that drivers are to treat lights out as an “uncontrolled intersection.” Yield to the vehicles that are already there. Yield to the vehicle on the right if you both arrive at the same time. You don’t have to stop but you should. It’s easier and safer.

My favourite pub in London is The Sun in Splendour. My Great Grandfather Frank Young lived down the street as a young man and he would have frequented it on occasion.

We do not tell students what they can or cannot say. The worst thing you can do is tell a comedian they can’t say something. They will immediately go out and say it. Most comedians go through what we call the potty-training phase. Initially, they lean into doing “edgy” stuff. It’s a safe choice – if the material doesn’t work, you can blame the audience for not being able to handle your truth.

As mayor, it’s hard for my constituents to understand what I do. Is my job ceremonial, they wonder, like the Queen’s? But when they see me taking on potholes, it’s very clear that I am a man of action. I’m a problem-solver. Got a…

Getting off social media is like not being invited to a party you never wanted to go to.

I came to Rome on a pilgrimage, not to the Vatican, but to retrace the locations of Federico Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece, La Dolce Vita. While other visitors swarm the Forum and the Colosseum, I’ve been to the Via Veneto, Cinecitta Studios, the Trevi Fountain and the EUR District looking for insight into one of the most successful foreign films ever made.