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The Education of Brian Nicholl The producers of the fifth estate, the CBC’s investigative TV series, called me up one day asking if they could...

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MyTownCrier.ca wins big at OCNA awards

I was lucky enough to see old Vaughan Today/Town Crier colleagues again on May 14 at the Ontario Community Newspapers Association awards gala. The night was made sweeter thanks to...
Watch your vehicle, police warn after warm-up thefts

A pair of Wednesday morning warm-up thefts in Vaughan has police reminding drivers to be careful with their cars. On Nov. 4 at about 6:30 a.m., a Toyota Camry was...
New youth city councillor welcomed

Ali Fatehzadah has taken on his post as Vaughan’s fifth youth city councillor with some lofty goals and the knowledge that he’s now a role model. “I’m of Afghan descent,...
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Around The Bend

I wish I were an Apple ad guy. Then I’d get to sit around and discover über-cool music while “working” on new iPod spots.
The Log Driver’s Waltz

This may well be simultaneously the best song and cartoon of all time. No, that’s too wishy-washy. It is both the best song and cartoon in the history of everything.
Thornhill Grits name hopeful

The new federal Thornhill Liberal nominee says the ruling Conservatives talk a good game but the time for talk is over. Karen Mock, an educational psychologist and consultant with a...
Hall lauds fallen man

Donald (Chic) Milne answered his last alarm from Fire Station 2 on Feb. 2, 1974. He drove Pumper 2 from the fire hall at Keele St. and Rutherford Rd. to...
Free tools to help present info visually online

I was at an all-day workshop yesterday at the Toronto Star put on by Robb Montgomery of Visual Editors out of Chicago. The entire day was about thinking of ways...
Free blog options abound – here are 17

This post started out as research for a workshop on the basics of blogging — how to set a free one up, really — that I ran last week for...