The game was not fixed, but my column The Game Fixer scored top honours at the Ontario Community Newspaper Association‘s Better Newspaper Awards.
Tag: Game Fixer
Balking at permit fees
Permit me to make a few comments on the corporate ninjas who have sabotaged a perfectly good year of baseball.
Insuring healthcare abroad
When it was known freestyle skier Sarah Burke lost her fight for survival, there was a silence in the Toronto Today office.
Game Fixer nominated for Column of the Year
Toronto Today picks up two nominations for OCNA’s Better Newspaper Awards
Making executive decisions
When Starbucks used to have quotes on their cups, under the heading “The Way I See It”, one rung true with me.
Best of luck, Wendy
A previously ubiquitous presence will be missing from the fields, stands and courts of Northern Secondary School this year.
Important stories are told here
These days I will flip through the Toronto dailies and notice a complete absence of high school athletics being reported.
Context is the message
There’s a culture in football that not everyone gets, Councillor Mike Layton included.
Blue not a friendly smurf
There might be a blemish on the memory of three North Toronto seniors — Greg Gott, Spencer Cook and Keenan Crawford — as their high […]
Fight the power
My suburban street in Whitby, once Rice Drive, was home to plenty of kids who spent late nights in gently falling snow playing ball hockey.