A while back, I used daily prompts to keep me writing. This is one of my favourite outcomes from that experiment. Take the first sentence from your favorite book and make it the first sentence of your post. The river flowed both ways. And each decision has at least “two ways”. For too long, I didn’t …
I recently re-tweeted a news article about how the Premier of our province, Kathleen Wynne, criticized Tim Horton’s franchisees for taking away benefits from employees as a cost cutting measure to meet the new minimum wage requirements; she called the owners ‘bullies’. I pointed out that Kathleen Wynne’s government has systematically cut benefits from education …
On New Year’s Eve, during a quiet dinner with friends, the topic of workplace injuries came up. One of our guests asked if I’d ever been hurt at work. As I listed the injuries and their causes, the guest was shocked. “Kids did that to you?” “No,” I answered. “The system did that to me …
