I had the misfortune of flying through Toronto Pearson airport the other day. Never a box full of fun, even pre-pandemic, the entire experience could best be described as miserable. For once, the media’s hysterical reporting was essentially accurate: huge lineups at security and customs, countless flight delays, overcrowded seating areas, restaurants without adequate capacity... If you can take an alternate route to your summer travel destination through any other Canadian ai

I was joined by a second individual in an elevator the other day, and after the two of us scuttled to diagonally opposite corners, he asked me: “Do you like guns?” In the United States a question like that would generally be met with an odd look and a surprised, “Yes, of course.” In Canada there’s way more to unpack, starting with the admirable nerve it took for a complete stranger to ask that question of another in an elevator. There’s elevator etiquette, after all. It dicta