Satire encourages critical thinking and reflection, using humour to soften its critique. It is designed to be entertaining yet thought-provoking. Sarcasm, in contrast, is more…
A well-organized and sustained boycott can be a powerful tool for effecting change against injustice. Outrage will start the ball rolling, but these days, there…
This past week on Bluesky someone posted what seemed like a genuine newspaper photo of Donald Trump and his mother taken, circa 1980’s. The caption…
When I heard Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, say the tech sector needed more ‘masculine energy’ I laughed out loud because I must have…
Recently I walked through downtown Toronto with a new friend who was visiting from Cincinnati. A young man stopped me to ask, “What, in your…
Rue: (verb), to regret some act or course of action or fact about oneself and wish it undone or altered. After the recent U.S. election,…
If Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos, were to walk into your home and start looking around; if they rifled through your belongings, observed your habits,…
For those of us who lived through the seventies, we might want to take a collective moment and remember how dark that decade actually was….
My Grandmother found a lump in one of her breasts circa 1930. Her options were limited; her breasts or her life. She opted to have…
Just is such a handy word, isn’t it? A short story I’d written had the word ‘just’ in it 12 times. In a 2500 word…