Competitive basketball saved our son
I never thought I’d hear myself say this, or see myself write it, but team sports have truly saved my kid’s life. Really. Without team sports, he’d probably be an insecure, angry mess who might have been kicked out of his Jewish day school, a result...
Your December-born kid may not have ADHD. He might just be immature.
A new Canadian study is bolstering an argument I’ve been making to my kids’ teachers and principals for years: children born later in a calendar year are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, than their older peers. (You can read more...
Stop picking on RIM
It’s no secret that Research in Motion has taken a beating lately – it’s been late to market with new products, its stock price and profits are down, its market share is nosediving, and as a result, the press has been all over it. But frankly,...
Why I miss the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre
Every weekday morning, as I drive my boys to middle school, I pass an empty lot in Toronto’s West Don River Valley that used to be home to the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre. Parkland has a soothing effect on most people, myself included, but this grassy...
Taking a bite out of the Apple Jobs myth
For those of us who haven’t consumed copious amounts of Apple-flavoured Kool-Aid, the the posthumous over-the-top comparisons of Steve Jobs to Edison, Einstein, Da Vinci, etc., have been more than a little hard to take. Fortunately, sanity is starting to return to the conversation. Malcolm Gladwell,...
This guy has tenure at Columbia
Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, had this to say on Al Jazeera’s website on Oct. 27, 2011. It’s a deconstruction, of sorts, of recent speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the...
White elephant in Winnipeg?
Martin Knelman wrote this fawning piece that appeared in the Toronto Star about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, now under construction in Winnipeg. This $300-million-plus facility is being built with money from three levels of government and private fundraising, which is being led by Gail Asper,...