From Stephen Spong

Blog posts from former reference librarian Stephen Spong

Canadian booze regulation - a chequered history

The state of Canadian liquor laws and regulations is something that occasionally crops up in op-eds across the country, but then quietly fades away only to flare up again periodically. Although Prohibition in the popular consciousness has a distinctly American flavour, evoking images of Al Capone, speakeasies, and bathtub gin (as an era, it certainly […]

Frozen

It is somehow appropriate that on the first weekend of 2014, the top-grossing movie at the North American box office was titled Frozen, which pretty much sums up the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014 in North America in general and Toronto in particular. For those of you who went home to points outside of […]