I can thank a hail storm for my private tour of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on Saturday afternoon. More due to luck than calculation, I reached Queen’s Park just minutes after the sun had come out, and in time to be the only one to join the regularly scheduled free 30-minute drop-in tour. One …
Last week I was in Washington D.C., on the way to a conference in Baltimore. It was my fifth time in D.C. since a first memorable class trip from Toronto at the impressionable age of 13, which included a heartbreaking visit to the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. As on previous D.C. trips, I …
… or Who Does What, Who’s Who, and What’s Going On? Working with a not-for-profit funded in part by the provincial government, I’ve learned how important it is to (attempt to) understand How Things Work, including Who Does What, Who’s Who, and generally What’s Going On. Living away from Ontario for quite a while, though, I’ve …
