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Shooting scary: available light on a dark Halloween night

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 […]

The CBC logo is a real smart idea, IBM “smattah planet” borrows the pizza

  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 […]

Robin’s new blog is launched

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 […]