What Do You Mean Mind Control?

  Quietly Brainwashing Canadian Baby Boomers and Generation X at School ***Updated Tuesday, July 26, 2022 to recognize the term “Indigenous Canadian” is archaic and offensive,

The Queer Border I

On a hot Saturday evening my fiancé Susan and I drove across the Peace Bridge to Buffalo, NY from Toronto, ON for a punk rock

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate in Toronto

Edith Biggs of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate visits Ontario’s Department of Education, 1967. According to R. F. Goodings and J. E. Dunford (1990), “[t]he contribution of

10 Fugitive Children

Henry Cousby, pronounced ‘Kosby’, was born in Virginia or Georgia in 1797 and is my oldest documented ancestor, not even two hundred years older. That’s

War Bonds, Pt 1

My father’s oldest brother, Donald, was born in Owen Sound in 1933. For a number of years after Uncle Don’s birth, Grandpa and Grandma lived

Grandpa’s House, Pt 1

Isabelle Grace Althea Tompkins, née McCarter, my paternal grandmother, kept Misty Mints in a Blue Mountain Pottery dish in the living room. Sometimes there were

That’s Urbane Politics

Keeping ideas from Karen and Kyle; or, how your Canadian Boomer and GenX textbooks lied to you by Jeremy Tompkins My second exposé of unacknowledged

Who Was George Alexander Drew?

Blue blood all the way man. Old stock, baby! “Most racist city” derives from 2010 Statistics Canada reporting of hate crimes. Hate crimes are not