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It’s fall and the leaves are changing colour. Trees are aflame with red, orange, gold and brown. Sunshine lights up the Canadian countryside into a dazzling display while the cities look dressed up for autumn. So why are the cars so boring? Meanwhile, cars…

One day, however, if all goes well and you are very, very fortunate, there comes a different kind of drop-off, one often made by automobile. There will be no pick-up, at least for a while. By this time, the children are no longer little….

I am in favour of toll roads. So are Americans. Their argument for toll roads is that they keep taxes down and sustain infrastructure. Maybe that’s why Canadians are so opposed. A country whose national identity is based on “not” being American must take…

It all begins with its beaches. Tropea offers some of the most welcoming in the Mediterranean, among them Il Palombaro, Cannone and Mare Grande. We spent most of our days on la spiaggia della rotonda, a 15-minute walk from Palazzo Mottola that includes a steep…

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.