A Canadian View of the U.S. Election
Give to love your hearth and hall. But do not give advice at all. -Phyllis McGinley The American election is steadily drawing closer, and our new…
Give to love your hearth and hall. But do not give advice at all. -Phyllis McGinley The American election is steadily drawing closer, and our new…
The Royal Ontario Museum, known popularly as the ROM or “Rawm,” is a significant point of pride for Torontonians, residents of Ontario, and Canadians outside Ontario. It…
There have been, since the floruit of Parmenides, a lot of philosophers, an awful lot of philosophers, actually. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy has eight volumes. The…
Many of our readers have spent time and effort, a lot of time and effort, in reading foreign language texts, and many will have noticed a certain…
Following links and then further links, in the way the internet makes so easy, so interesting, and sometimes more than a waste of time, your columnist came…
It is difficult, sometimes, to be serious, appropriately serious, about trifles. On the one hand, trifles are . . . well . . . trifles. On the…
We wrote, a few months ago, about weeding the Greek and Latin collection at the Toronto Reference Library. On the same floor, 5M, of the storage area,…
Since the Internet developed, and people with more anger than noesis no longer needed a stamp, a sheet of paper, and the address of the local newspaper,…
It is a piece of conventional wisdom that what we see all the time we do not see at all, and that the very assumption that is…
A large reference library such as the central library here in Toronto has open shelves, accessible to the public, but the bulk of its collection (a big…
Notwithstanding Valentine’s, there’s not much to be said for February other than that it’s short. February is boring. Boring. So, let’s talk about boredom. That boredom is…
Acme is not a name used very much anymore, but as one goes around Toronto, one may see an Acme bar, or an Acme laundry, and imagine these…
Sometimes, a suggestion from the crowd, though of little merit in itself, may stir those who are wiser to correction and emendation, and so initiate the subsequent…
Any largish institution, any home in fact, will find itself with odd accumulations of . . . stuff: old shipping documents, tax reports, Christmas decorations from the…
Each of the seven deadly vices, Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Lust, Envy and Gluttony, has had defenders. Wrath, or Rage is very chic. Even Sloth can get…