This past Saturday night as the The Toronto Police tweeted “Please be advised, Canada will be closed at 8:00pm”, Canadians came together to celebrate a musical legend’s last performance. For those of you who do not know, Gord Downie, the front man for The Tragically Hip announced to the world in May that he had been diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer. The concert last Saturday was the last stop on the band’s summer tour. Life is short. This is not just a cliché that I th

I was out for dinner this past weekend with a girlfriend from the UK and we were laughing ourselves silly because there were a couple of times that I completely mistook what she was saying for something else. The two of us, although we were speaking the same language had the stories going in two very different directions. Needless to say, we had a great time laughing about how the exact same set of words could be understood in two very distinctly different ways. This fun n