OK here I go again
Share Christmas
If you live in Toronto – or if you live near Toronto – I’m extending an invitation.
This afternoon starting at about 4 p.m., my kids and I will participate in Community Centre 55’s annual Share A Christmas campaign. If you’re nearby, and you have time, you should, too.
In Share A Christmas, we deliver food and toys to hundreds of families in Toronto’s East End. Families apply to receive the food baskets and toys, and they come all faiths and walks of life. We’ve delivered food to community housing neighbourhoods, but also to addresses where families have fallen on bad luck, or worse. For my kids, it is always an eye-opener, and it always leaves a big (and positive) impression on them. You get rewarded in a special way, too.
C’mon by. You – and we – will be glad you did.
Details are here. We converge on Centre 55 at 97 Main Street, between Kingston Road and Gerrard, at about 4 p.m. We get food – and, if there are kids in the family, toys too – and start delivering right away. It’s an amazing program, and one that helped more than 600 families last year.
Hope to see you there.
In case you were wondering what it is all about
In today’s Sun: the Chretien-Harris prize fight
The original. The 2010 version. Don’t try this at home, kids, without adult supervision.
One of the protesters, Bill Clennett, tried to block the prime ministerial path.
Power and Politics: the best and worst of 2010!
The universe achieves balance, tolerance-wise
The guy who was punished for opposing intolerance has been reinstated.
And the guy who was actually intolerant, and wasn’t punished, has apologized.
Sanity is restored, and before Christmas too.
I’m still cranky after the insurance-less buffoon demo’d the rear end of my car, however.
A great way to start Christmas week
Pulling into the Canadian Tire near my office this morning, and a guy slams into my rear bumper and quarter panel. Interestingly, he doesn’t have his insurance information on him. I am now at one of the three “Accident Support Service” offices in the City of Toronto.
Three. For a city of five million people.
Whatever Christmas spirit I possessed is now fully gone.
In today’s Sun: an open letter to Messrs. Ignatieff and Layton
In effect, Mr. Harper is erasing the border between Canada and the United States.
And, to get little, he is trading away too much.”