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October 2015  (1)
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• 08: The Peace-of-mind Thief (0)

February 2014  (3)
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• 22: How to Know When You’re the Opposite of Handy (1)
• 08: How to Know When You’ve Become a Certain Kind of Writer (wink wink) (1)
• 01: How to Know When You’re on the Cusp of Old Age (3)

December 2013  (1)
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• 02: Will Toronto Become Canada’s Dallas? (0)

November 2013  (3)
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• 21: My Dentist and I Argue over Oral Hygiene (1)
• 16: Dracula Meets Al Gore (1)
• 09: Too Soon? Too Much? Too Bad (1)

October 2013  (1)
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• 26: If Porcupines Had Wings, No Balloon Would be Safe (1)

January 2013  (1)
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• 17: “Two Scoops” Is Just Right – Now Available!  (0)

November 2012  (1)
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• 30: My Wife and I Argue over our Travel Plans (Hey, I’m not Cheap but…) (7)

June 2012  (1)
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• 16: Bad Teeth and Smelly Feet (a.k.a., Toronto’s Plastic Bag Ban)  (2)

April 2012  (1)
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• 23: How to Know When You’re a Hypochondriac (2)

March 2012  (2)
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• 17: The Seductive Charm of a Tentative Touch (2)
• 15: Borderline with Blemishes (0)

February 2012  (2)
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• 25: The Whipper Snapper Side-Swipe Caper (1)
• 17: The Yin and Yang of Canadian Meteorology (2)

January 2012  (2)
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• 28: The Priestess and Her Strobe Light Burden (0)
• 02: Nostra and Damus (3)

December 2011  (1)
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• 18: Foil’s Forsaken Folio

November 2011  (5)
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• 26: Pretty Sure What Done Him In (2)
• 19: Physician to Precarious Longings (2)
• 12: The Grief Machine (3)
• 05: Bullet Proof (3)
• 01: The Monkey, the Croc and the T-Rex (5)

October 2011  (2)
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• 19: The Great Wall of America (a.k.a. Diagonally Across the Country)  (4)
• 08: A Beatles’ Legacy (8)

August 2011  (2)
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• 11: Ornament (11)
• 10: Less Than 100 Words Mini-reviews (0)

July 2011  (2)
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• 21: Anheuser-Busch the Budgie (Suggestions to Lower Washington’s Debt) (3)
• 18: The CROSS of e-book publishing (10)

June 2011  (3)
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• 26: Free e-book from Carrick Publishing (3)
• 25: Chuck the Wagon Driver and His Reluctant Bride (0)
• 02: May We Have Some Privacy Please? (4)

May 2011  (2)
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• 14: One Fib Too Far (6)
• 07: A Dozen Answers to One Osama Bin Laden Mystery (3)

April 2011  (5)
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• 30: The Melancholy Fog Harvester (5)
• 22: Trap (2)
• 16: Caboose Follies (1)
• 09: Undeterred She Forged Ahead (2)
• 02: Marshall of Cahoots (0)

March 2011  (3)
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• 26: Gravity’s Absence (0)
• 12: The Lord’s Rogue Locomotive (5)
• 05: Kiss Me Soft, Kill Me Quick (7)

February 2011  (4)
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• 27: Two Men Who Thought They Knew People (0)
• 19: A Father and Son Explore Some Grey Areas (1)
• 12: Copycat Commute Concerto (0)
• 04: Saved by a Hare’s Breath (0)

January 2011  (5)
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• 29: The ‘Oh I Wish I’d Been There’ Club (1)
• 27: How has Writing Changed Me?  (3)
• 22: A Dystopian View on Being Ripe (1)
• 15: Platter and Glance (1)
• 08: In Memoriam, Life Magnifico (4)

November 2010  (2)
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• 18: The Ethical Auctioneer (2)
• 13: An Unfortunate Dog Walking Incident (Farley’s Wife Told Him So) (2)

October 2010  (5)
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• 24: 20 Key Points on Social Media, Its Importance and Influence (0)
• 23: Ode to Canada’s National Game (no, not hockey) (2)
• 16: Reminisce Once Too Often (3)
• 08: The Mystery of the Witch’s Knickers (12)
• 01: Godzilla’s in the House (4)

September 2010  (1)
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• 03: Side-by-side Story-telling Song Titles (1)

July 2010  (5)
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• 24: Words of Wisdom from Ari Noshuns (5)
• 17: For Daisy, Life is a Stretch (2)
• 14: Proper Young Ladies Should Never… (7)
• 08: How Hot is Toronto?  (4)
• 04: Donna and I Go Hollywood (29)

June 2010  (2)
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• 05: Social Networking’s Number One Fan (3)
• 02: At the Intersection of Silly and Sublime (6)

May 2010  (1)
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• 01: Forever Running Late (6)

April 2010  (3)
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• 24: That Would Be Naïve of Me (6)
• 10: One Shot in the Hot Seat (9)
• 02: Queen’s Jester to King’s Betterment (2)

March 2010  (3)
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• 27: The Size of the Skip (11)
• 18: Fuzzy on the Details (5)
• 06: One Thousand Years of Baked Goods (9)

February 2010  (4)
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• 27: Chasing a Murderer into Polar Bear Country (4)
• 20: The Personal Injury Attorneys to the Stars (6)
• 13: An Imaginary Friend of an Imaginary Friend of Mine (10)
• 06: Dancing the Family Man Shuffle (9)

January 2010  (5)
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• 30: Ms. Phitts and Mr. Gatheral Spar Two Rounds (6)
• 23: A Curious Case of Bottled-up Passion (3)
• 16: The Wizard and the Rose (11)
• 09: Herb Green Discusses his Finances in Four-letter Words (5)
• 01: The Madame Lazonga Defense (9)

December 2009  (4)
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• 27: The Mechanized Sorting Day of the Dead (11)
• 19: Lenny and Keith Flounder in the Shallow End (8)
• 12: The Freeze Dried Monster on the Skyway (7)
• 06: Pedro Martinez’ Incredible String of Good Luck (8)

November 2009  (4)
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• 29: The Red-Suit Mistletoe Initiative (16)
• 21: So You Think You Know Flop Sweat (3)
• 14: Witness to a Backyard Execution (10)
• 06: Giving a Finger to the Moon (8)

October 2009  (5)
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• 31: The Devil Pulls a Fast One (5)
• 24: Life was Sweet Again on Planet Lollipop (6)
• 18: The CAB Nations and their Rogue Currency (2)
• 12: I Got Robbed by a Liquor Store (6)
• 05: Real Estate Purgatory (7)

September 2009  (5)
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• 26: The Seagull Poet of Butter Bay (1)
• 18: No Problem, Excuse Me and the Limits of Civility (0)
• 12: Knowing when You’ve had Enough of Your Summer Holiday (0)
• 10: My Wife and I Argue over our New i-Phone (1)
• 02: Disney Goes After a Bigger Fish than Marvel (0)

August 2009  (7)
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• 28: Obamacare and Harry Potter (0)
• 25: The Weatherman, the Economist and the Gypsy Lady (0)
• 23: Spartacus the Kite (2)
• 19: Catching Up on the Not So Local News (0)
• 14: Twitter Bits (0)
• 12: Every Family Lives by Its Sayings (0)
• 03: Why’d You Leave Me in the Lurch? (0)

July 2009  (7)
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• 27: Raj and Friends Discuss his Birthplace (0)
• 24: Shortage of Bullets in the U.S. goes Critical (0)
• 21: The Ten Minute Date that Changed Everything (0)
• 15: There’s No Such Thing as Time (0)
• 10: Toronto Needs Speed Stick (0)
• 08: Floaty Boat Weekend (0)
• 01: My Year of Blogging Dangerously (0)

June 2009  (3)
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• 30: Will that be Chicken or Beef? (0)
• 29: Everybody’s Crazy (3)
• 15: The Bala-Port Carling-Rosseau Axis (0)

May 2009  (5)
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• 29: The Frightening World of Drug Disclaimers (3)
• 25: Bad Boy Carbon Needs a Psych Work-up (0)
• 18: The Best Valentine’s Day Present Ever (1)
• 10: A Year in Residence at Canada’s Most Exclusive School (1)
• 04: Spotting the Space Aliens Among Us (0)

April 2009  (8)
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• 29: Let the Robots Run the Place (0)
• 24: A New National Holiday Based on Doing Nothing (9)
• 22: The Five Minutes that will Nickel and Dime You to Death (0)
• 21: The Curious Meanings of Some Canadian Place Names Continued (0)
• 21: Bad Starts to the Working Day (1)
• 15: Celebrity Greeters at Wal-Mart Continued (1)
• 14: I’ve Taken Up Roller Blading to Save on Gas (0)
• 13: Revenge of the Beaster Bunny (2)

March 2009  (1)
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• 31: There can only ever be the One Dog (1)

February 2009  (2)
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• 21: A Few Good Fortune Tellers (0)
• 07: Canadian Male Pick-up Lines (2)

January 2009  (3)
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• 26: The Reader is a Movie to See and Not Just Hear About (0)
• 19: Marriage and Multi-tasking (1)
• 05: TYBA Projects (0)

December 2008  (9)
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• 31: Food, Fashion, Finances, Family and Fun (0)
• 31: They’re Giving Them Away (0)
• 22: Economics Humor – Take my Dismal Science, Please (0)
• 22: The Tooth Fairy must Work for the Government (0)
• 20: The Perils of Driving in the White Stuff (0)
• 15: Canadian Artists – A Talented Lot, but Poor at Math (1)
• 09: Canada’s Coalition Leaders – No, I’m your Greeter! (0)
• 02: The Misadventures of Watching Movies at Home with the Kids (2) (0)
• 01: The Misadventures of Watching Movies at Home with the Kids (1) (1)

November 2008  (5)
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• 21: A Mathematical Proof Economists are Sexy (1)
• 17: The Most Serious Letter in the Alphabet (0)
• 12: Providing a Punch Line – A Fun Writing Exercise (0)
• 10: The Wise Old Rooster (0)
• 03: Me, My Wife and My Blog (0)

October 2008  (3)
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• 27: The NFL as All My Children (0)
• 20: To Whom it June Concern (3)
• 08: Dad has a New Hobby (0)

September 2008  (6)
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• 29: Three Cities with a Lot in Common: Calgary, Edmonton and Venice (1)
• 25: How to Get Ahead in this Life (0)
• 16: The 24-7 Voting Nation (2) (0)
• 15: The 24-7 Voting Nation (1) (0)
• 08: Walking Daisy, Over the Dunes and Around the Bend (0)
• 02: SIU Medical Care (0)

August 2008  (6)
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• 26: What’s Red, Pretty and Prickly? (0)
• 25: What’s Happened to Jokes Isn’t Funny (0)
• 18: Ideas for an Everyman Olympics (0)
• 07: Ode to an Audience (Part 3 of 3) (0)
• 06: Ode to an Audience (Part 2 of 3) (0)
• 05: Ode to an Audience (Part 1 of 3) (1)

July 2008  (4)
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• 28: My Wife and I Argue over a Plant (8)
• 21: Doing the Economics Tango (0)
• 14: Taking Someone Else’s Child to the Cottage (1)
• 07: Which Letter of the Alphabet is the Funniest? (10)

June 2008  (5)
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• 30: High Finance, Carrick Family Style (0)
• 23: Thirteen Ways to Lure American Visitors to Canada (0)
• 16: The Dawning of a Bright New Day in Garbage Collection (0)
• 09: Death of a Mattress (0)
• 02: The Timbit Affair and a List of Bogus Firings (1)

May 2008  (4)
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• 27: Reasons to Want to be Governor of the Bank of Canada (1)
• 20: My Wife can Read my Mind (2)
• 12: A Perfect Second Career for their Golden Years – At Wal-Mart (0)
• 02: Crawlers and Spiders and the Art of Headline Puns

April 2008  (4)
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• 25: Coppering the Fleet (0)
• 24: Deuteronomy No Longer Describes Canada’s Place in the World (0)
• 14: Bathroom Humour (0)
• 07: Driving Schools: What’s in a Name? (1)

March 2008  (7)
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• 20: Playing Chess in Three Dimensions (0)
• 17: Only One, The Governor of New York (0)
• 14: Life is a Million Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (0)
• 12: The Curious Meanings of Some Canadian Place Names (0)
• 07: RSS Feeds – I Love Them (0)
• 06: Celine Dion, Jack Bauer and NAFTA (0)
• 03: GREEN is an Acronym (0)

February 2008  (2)
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• 26: Geezer TV (0)
• 25: Phrase of the Day: Green Collar Jobs (0)

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