Society

Many today are deliberately choosing solitude. But group cohesion matters Christmas and holiday seasons are here, and they usually feature lots of socializing. Dinners, office parties, family get-togethers. People see each other again, rub elbows and exchange greetings. Auld lang syne, and all that. Cheers! Nobody can match that in-person experience on Facetime or Facebook….

Our hopes and fears need leavening with common sense What are we to make of AI? September 2nd was the 1,000th day since the release of ChatGPT, the easily accessible artificial-intelligence tool launched by OpenAI. More AI tools have proliferated as tech heavyweights Google, Microsoft and Meta have released their own consumer models. Three years…

Doctors in Canada are moving away from family practice, provoking a crisis.

Minister visits pubs as art of social outreach in the 1960s

“Lockdown will have at best a short-term impact on Covid cases”: One public-health expert challenges the Canadian media’s consensus. _________________________________ INTERVIEW Dr Richard Schabas, former Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario and the country’s best-recognized lockdown critic, granted the following interview to davidwinch.website.  Q. Dr Schabas, first a bit of background: you served as…

The 1980s were golden for satirists in New York City, as blowhard personalities such as mayor Ed Koch, the Yankees’ George Steinbrenner and garish hustler Donald Trump dominated the mediascape. Celebrity headliners from Spike Lee and Madonna to Darryl Strawberry also crowded the tabloid fronts. Upstart  magazine Spy took full aim, with a brazen style…

My impression from discussions over recent years with New Yorkers and Europeans, especially young people, is that they have an almost absurdly positive view of Canada generally and Montreal specifically

Talk of decline and ‘exodus’ comes easily to media, but federal figures are more realistic by David Winch, October 1, 2017 MONTREAL – The touchiness in Quebec about demographic issues could be described, apologies to Jane Austen, as census and sensibility. Following the release of the 2016 mid-term federal census (in August 2017), reactions to…

The scenic Townships region near the U.S. border is drawing more city professionals from Montreal, who find small-town life accessible in an online world by David Winch, Montreal Gazette January 8, 2017 KNOWLTON — Susan Pepler wanted to try a new neighbourhood. A downtown Montreal denizen, the Concordia grad and Dawson-certified designer was happy and…

LIFE SENTENCE Older inmates are packing U.S. prisons and colouring them with shades of gray Foreword from the book Prisoners of Age (2000): http://www.prisonersofage.com/home   Photos by Ron Levine Text by David Winch   “My prison is becoming a old folks home” — Warden of 3,000-prisoner Angola state penitentiary in Louisiana I was young and…