There's a local campaign in the Greater Toronto Area sponsored by the good folks at the Salvation Army and promoted daily on a local television station, in most cases by one of the most insufferably manic weathermen one is ever likely to see on television.

The campaign is called...

The author on the streets of Toronto shooting his film.

Positive affirmation is like the key that starts the engine of the vehicle that drives us on our own paths.

But self-efficacy -- knowing that you can achieve the goals...

Threats to our own personal security are everywhere. It sure seems that way, anyways. This is not paranoia on my part, although come to think of it I still have problems watching a football game because when they get into the huddle I think they're talking about me. But that's...

Despite a deluge of investigative reports, television documentaries and even feature films that outlined the tangled web of players involved in the drug trade, it seems to me that people either don't get it or don't want to know.

Two people are shot dead and over 20 wounded in...

My long time companion Johnnie Walker and I were just settling in for the night when the phone rang. The ubiquitous chirp of the mechanical ringtone, the defining aural signature of our times. It was a good buddy of mine, and I'm pretty sure that he was into his stash...

Funny how some of the most innocuous conversations, born on a street corner, seemingly nondescript, are in fact rooted in the most profound of truths. Everyone has had these moments.

So I'm standing outside "The Barn" restaurant in Toronto ("It's called The Barn because all the animals go there"...

The UEFA European Football Championships start Friday but I won't be plumping pillows in Poland or drinking champagne in Ukraine.

I'll be watching the games on TV just like everybody else.

Euro 2012 begins amidst the backdrop of several scandals and flashpoints: There's been yet another betting and bribes scandal...