Who knew it is the second Friday? I thought to myself, looking at the pop-up sellers on James Street North during my Friday walk. Life is quickly returning to some semblance of pre-COVID patterns. There are only a handful of pop-ups this Friday night, a few selling knick-knacks, with some…
Without realizing it until now, today was my first day of normality in nearly two years.…
The problem of Council blathering cannot be solved by telling them to blather elsewhere. In fact, speeches at Council are more valuable than ever.…
The COVID third wave is the most demoralizing of the pandemic for me. In the first wave, during the early days when it was a crisis, I was too busy responding on campus, moving others out, and then moving myself out. It was the most exhausting, I managed to hold…
Much as the establishment candidates are not speaking to issues of voters, the establishment media (and it does not get more establishment than the NYT) needs to be mindful to choose issues which matter to voters to illustrate candidates qualifications, or lack thereof.…
I continue to work on some posts for the coming weeks to encourage journalists to apply to be a Fellow-at-Large of the University of Toronto and Southam Fellow at Massey College. The tags for these posts is: Southam Fellowship [https://joeycoleman.ca/tag/southham-fellowship/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aren't you a bit old…
I continue to work on some posts for the coming weeks to encourage journalists to apply to be a Fellow-at-Large of the University of Toronto and Southam Fellow at Massey College. This adds to the community aspects of the role. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I write this on Wednesday night, as I watch…
Time: Summer 2007 Place: A restaurant Setting: Editorial planning meeting Twice a year, we gather to brainstorm the feature style articles for upcoming university issues and the website. One of my story ideas was to highlight that McMaster University's Library now had videos games for checkout and a gaming lounge…