RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2025. Some recent seasonal advice from the estimable www.independent.co.uk started me thinking. It came in a “Health Check” from Emilie Lavinia, Fitness and Wellbeing Editor, on “The true cost of drinking alcohol” — as you spread your glad tidings of good cheer over the next 30 days. […]

FROM RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, WED 18 NOV 2020 : Sophia A. Nelson (who might qualify as one seasoned guide to the new political middle ground many Americans apparently now yearn for) published an interesting piece on the Daily Beast site this past Sunday. Her article is called “The Authoritarian Threat in This Country […]

George Orwell (1903-1950) was such an interesting political writer partly because he lived through so many troubling issues of both his and our day in his own life. Reading about the human rights activist Charm Tong’s June 2006 visit to Canada, at least, is likely to make anyone who has read the book remember Orwell’s […]