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Today is Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year in the US. The day after American Thanksgiving (as we Canadians call it) has bee...

If by some bizarre circumstance you were thinking of going in for some bloodletting tomorrow, you might want to hold off, because Novembe...

We've been subjected to more than our fair share of punditry in the last few weeks as the professionally opinionated weigh in on the US ...

Today is the second of November. How on earth did we get the ordinal "second" from the cardinal number "two"? This is st...

The World Series has just started, so let's look at the word "umpire". In medieval France, a nonper (literally “not a pai...

I recently saw a memo alerting employees at the National Ballet of Canada to the fact that a new security door had been installed, and hence...

20th ANNUAL GRIMSBY MUSEUM DINNER AND AUCTION Bachelor for Rent: Things you never suspected about Canadian English A hilarious look at wh...