Mayor John Tory of Toronto today announced that an extremely prominent square in the centre of his city would be named after the Indigenous protester, Nathan Phillips, who was recently surrounded by […]
Saying they were clearly left with no choice, Canada today took the unusual step of naming someone other than a foreign head of state as the official Responsible Person for their own government, […]
In a conversation that was, statistically speaking, shared word for word by nearly 25 million other Canadians at some point today, a stranger/bus driver/cashier/co-worker/family member/fellow commuter/neighbour nodded towards the grey sky and […]
Taking Kurt Vonnegut’s famous words, “We could have saved the Earth, but we were too damned cheap,” as an imperative rather than a resigned castigation, Canadian Conservatives have flocked to the board […]
“They pretty much hit the ground running,” explained Frank the Planet Monger, speaking at an alien convention, shortly after returning from a 4-eon sabbatical in the Milky Way, in which he encountered […]
As always on this site, the quotes below are fictitious, and the subtext less so. Following outraged reaction online to scenes of young men harassing Indigenous elders in Washington DC, administrators at […]
In an update to a previous story, entitled “When Do We Get To The Great Part? And Why Are You Putting Children In Jail?”, The Out And Abouter has learned that a […]
As an icy blast of living well to the north on a planet with a tilted axis descends on the unsuspecting inhabitants of Canada and the northern United States this weekend, many […]
Following years of university bound students from Ontario’s better-off families having to forego such necessities as a panoramic moonroof in the luxury vehicle their parents gifted to them – after their private […]
Two-and-a-half years after the allegedly great nation of Britain voted to depart the European Union – in response to promises of free pasties for everyone if they did, and regularly scheduled parades […]
