The last time anyone was certain about the character of Toronto was in the 1940s and the ’50s, when the city was shut up tight on Sundays and the rest of the week was just as prim.
In recent years, Toronto has been in flux. We have traded our staid WASP stance for a glorious, riotous international…
Joe Fiorito
Joe Fiorito is a city columnist with the Toronto Star, and the author of the memoir The Closer We Are to Dying (McClelland and Stewart, 1999).
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Thomas Lynch divided by Studs Terkel times Larry, Moe and Curly equals Charles Wilkins; or you had better be careful when you give a kid a summer job, because he might take notes.
I will, as usual, explain.
No one is more familiar with the rituals and cadences of modern funerary rites than the American…