Where’s the money, the latest episode of The Agency Podcast, is now available. Where’s the Money?Insects, oil, and hostages. Reasons to be Cheerful. The Vampire’s Wife. You can listen on your computer or grab it to go on your phone from iTunes/Apple Podcasts or Google… Read More
I voted this morning and I hope you do too. What an ugly election campaign, with a mostly dismal cast of characters. I always hope important jobs like elected office will attract our best and brightest, but this time around, it’s hard to make that… Read More
Quite a few years ago, on one of his occasional visits to Toronto, Chicago artsist Anthony Stagg (OK everyone just calls him Stagg, even his honey), spent an afternoon in the little backyard studio, a glorified shed I kept at the time and called The… Read More
Phil Wiggins and Jerron Paxton
I’ve been on the planet 58 and change years and only recently has it occurred to me to buy kohlrabi. This strange-looking vegetable is in the same family as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and so on. You can cook it in all kinds of ways,… Read More
This morning when I was out walking The Partners, I noticed several shaggie mane mushrooms emerging from my neighbour’s lawn. Now I would have pointed this out to him and even provided suggestions for cooking them but unfortunately he’s out of the country. Shaggie manes… Read More
The latest episode of The Agency Podcast, Last of the Independents is now available. Among our conversations this week, we read a letter from one of our listeners, Bob, who recommends moonshot thinkers Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler to us. We saw JOKER this week… Read More
As a young adult, I had a summer and part time job in the Humber Bay area, working as the evening guy (I was the only employee on site) at an old motel, which was part of a strip of motels along that part of… Read More
I’ve been noticing big black splotches on maple trees lately, especially on Norway Maples and I wondered what that was. Is it killing the tree? Is it caused by some scary environmental factor? It turns out it is a common fungus known as Tar Spot,… Read More
Everywhere I go, I see disposable coffee cups littered on the ground. Today I went for a walk through the lovely naturalized parkland at Humber Bay and picked up one from Tim Horton’s and another from Starbucks. The cup in the photo was steps from… Read More
27th Street 