Here in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has twice prorogued parliament to avoid political challenges, first the threat of a coalition of the three opposition parties and second a rather unsuccessful attempt to avoid nasty questions about the treatment of Afghan detainees. When Harper porogued parliament, all the government bills on the order paper died […]
I wasn’t assigned to cover the Olympic torch relay on the evening of Thursday Dec. 17, 2009, but ran right into it as I was heading from work to work out at the downtown YMCA. I got to College subway station and saw the crowd waiting for the torch. As I was preparing to make […]
In Toronto, the place to be late on Halloween night–for adults–is Church Street, the heart of the city’s “gay village” (although most gay people who live in the neighborhood still call it “the ghetto”). Just a few years ago, when the city began closing off Church Street for the traditional gay and lesbian celebration of […]
IBM’s smarter planet ad campaign had been on television for sometime, with “ordinary” folks from around the world talking about smarter cities, smarter everything, to be answered by others saying “I’m an IBMer.” While I am a CBCer and have worked for many years under the expanding C logo of Mother Corp, also known […]
With the unfortunate death of the old “garret tree,” killed by a fierce late summer Ontario thunderstorm, at the same time that I was redesigning my website, I decided the time had come to launch a new blog. So I shut down The Garret Tree. So now Robin’s Weir will be my blog on writing […]