How fast is fastest?

Harry Shannon I was listening to CBC radio last week, and heard someone claim that cricket is the fastest-growing sport in Ontario.  Maybe it was in Canada, but that’s not relevant to my point here. My point is that the term fastest-growing is really meaningless, or at best misleading.  There are about a million registered soccer pla…

Whose fake news?

Harry Shannon We’re hearing a lot about fake news.  To hear Donald Trump call it, you’d think that it’s the mainstream media that are centrist or lean to the left who are guilty of misreporting or even making up stories.  Of course he produces no evidence to back up his claim.  Nor does he comment on the accuracy of reports on the rig…

My latest letter to the Toronto Star

It wasn't published, but you can read it here! Background to the letter.  The Ontario Premier Doug Ford shuffled the provincial cabinet after barely a year in power.  Actually, not just a shuffle, but also an increase in the number of ministers. For more on the class sizes, click here Re Radical Reboot, June 21I assume it’s just a coi…