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It’s a busy time of year. People are out taking care of errands. Some are preparing for the holidays. On this particular day, there were no open parking spaces. Desperate drivers roamed the lot hoping to find one. Instead, however, they were treated to…

Where my writing began. Westboro – nihilistic 1980s dystopia

Talking politics – Trudeau, Conservative leadership race, Trump and bad Christmas car commercials with Anthony Furey and John Oakley. Sound and the Fury.

I talked about Andrew Scheer’s sudden departure today with the Toronto Sun’s Anthony Furey and Alex Pierson on AM640.

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.

If you’re looking for traits to bind us – from British Columbia to Newfoundland – look no further than our capacity to complain about the weather during every one of our four seasons and our collective astonishment each November when temperatures plummet and snow falls

Why is parallel parking part of every province’s driver’s test? Is it nostalgia? Is it a throwback to our time as a colony? That is, after all, why parallel parking was put in the test in the first place. Canadian driver’s exams were originally…

I spoke about the execution of Harold Pringle on the John Oakley Show. His story remains sad and tragic.

Judging by how drivers treat crosswalks, it not hard to see why the trend is continuing. Recently, an 11-year-old student in Edmonton filmed traffic at the crosswalk she has to use to get to school. The video shows a stream of trucks and SUVs gliding through, oblivious to the children trying to cross. We’ve all seen drivers ignore the flashing lights, or pause for a moment and then plow through when the pedestrian has cleared their bumper (even though the law dictates they must stop until the pedestrian has reach the opposite curb).

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.