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Where Have All The Volunteers Gone?

Where Have All The Volunteers Gone?

Where Have All The Volunteers Gone? It seems that it has gotten harder and harder to raise volunteers for non-profit organizations over the past 25 years. As usual demographic analysis definitely predicted the situation long ago. As people aged memberships would diminish, and executives would lose all the old

Art in The Garbage

Art in The Garbage

Art is certainly existential, out there somewhere, locked in creative minds who are dreaming about it, or perhaps already sitting there in everyday existence, on a wall, standing on a plinth, stretched on a canvas, fired in a kiln, or even cast in bronze. An echo of ourselves, and essential

Sleepless in Toronto

Sleepless in Toronto

Being a fairly busy chap, I haven’t previously gone to Nuit Blanche. I don’t know why; I just didn’t make it, ever. Nuit Blanche started in 2006 when I was likely even busier. I bet a lot of folks have that same excuse, reason, or sidestep nature,

Eye Know

Eye Know

Recently in the family, there was a discussion about the seeming changeable nature of eye colours if they are not definitely brown or blue. Those colours in between, ‘hazel eyes’, are conglomerates of melanin, which is actually brown, varies in amounts in each person’s iris, and can be a

Something to Match the Couch!

Something to Match the Couch!

When Goya painted “The 3rd of May, 1808” people had couches but he certainly wasn’t painting something to match the couch. I use that expression because it has been a standard joke among artists for as long as I can remember. It implies that people decorating their living room

Bricks versus Virtual

Bricks versus Virtual

‘Virtual’ is a tricky word, and these days it has significant meaning. Over time, at least since the beginning of the internet, we have been like little ants who run all over the place and create their kingdom underground where one can’t see it. Humans in comparison have also

AI, Think about it!

AI, Think about it!

Lately, AI is the talk of the town with that two-letter acronym being a normal part of everyday speech. ChatGPT has also become quite familiar, especially in the sense of its writing, automatic writing, of letters, or most dramatically, student university essays. In the case of university or high

The McCowan Log House

The McCowan Log House

This Scarborough historical marker, The McCowan Log Home, is located in Thompson Park at Lawrence and Brimley, perhaps familiar to folks who have taken their kids to the playgrounds and other recreational opportunities located in the park. A closer examination of this artifact reveals a history of early Scarborough settlers