Bob Wiseman

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I believe I am more polite than most of my fellow Torontonians when it comes to the subway. I stand well back from the doors, giving departing passengers a clear […]

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A student from Nepal, who couldn’t vote, asked the class who they were voting for. The responses spread across the familiar spectrum: five for the Liberals, three for the NDP, […]

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You might wonder what’s higher up the mountain, but until your body climbs, until your breath shortens and your legs burn with ascent, you can’t truly know. The mind speculates, […]

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When people talk about diets, they often speak not just of reaching a goal but of keeping it off as if the success is already slipping, already plotting its return. […]

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I watch people gripped by fear for a future that hasn’t arrived, and when I try to say gently, this panic is over something not here yet, it only deepens […]

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I’d never truly heard of the Komodo dragon until one lunged at me through a late-night spiral of YouTube. Now I can’t stop watching. Their jaws clamp down on whole, […]

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You can’t supply wisdom to someone simply by showing them words. That’s the trick in the teaching business. Like Arnold, the psychiatrist, used to say at our staff meetings, “a […]

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In class, a student brought up the Lucy Connolly story from the UK. A story that struck many of us as surreal and troubling, centering around a brutal tragedy: seventeen-year-old […]

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It’s my dad’s birthday today. He died over twenty years ago. Today marks one hundred years ago his birth. He was the only one in the family who didn’t play […]

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I was reading about using AI for therapy, about the results of a study of women suffering PTSD in two groups, one that used psychotherapists three times a week, the […]