Profile of Toula Foscolos

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• The importance of being earnest
  A recent study conducted on how social media users acquire their information, concluded that most readers actually follow columnists rather than ...
• How many deaths will it take before we redefine...
  I don’t claim to be a hockey fanatic, but it’s hard to live in this town and not have the game be part of your daily life. News that retired NHL ...
• Food obsessed, for sure!
  There's a scene in Pixar's animated film "Ratatouille", where cold-hearted food critic, Anton Ego, samples Remy's traditional Provencal stewed ...
• Common courtesy not so common anymore…
  There I was, stuck in rush-hour traffic again when I witnessed what I’ve witnessed a thousand times before. The driver in front of me casually ...
• Thanks for treating us like “ladies”, Rogers Cup!
  I instantly felt anger rise up in me. Why should the term “lady” offend, you ask? Because it connotes the image of a Southern belle sipping mint ...
• Danny Bhoy’s Wanderlust delivers non-stop laughs
  Wanderlust is one of my favourite words, but in the hands of Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy, it becomes a 90-minute one-man show that ...
• Cop’s Code of Silence has to go!
  Thirty-six year old Patrick Limoges died on Tuesday, June 7, on his way to work. While police officers were trying to subdue a violent homeless ...
• Drunk on power!
  At first it was former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, John Edwards, and the allegations of infidelity that surfaced as his wife was ...
• BIXI bailout accusations baseless
  There’s a whole lot of complaining going on in this city right now, and one certainly wouldn’t be in the wrong if they were to add their voice ...
• City of Montreal should be ashamed!
  If you don’t already know about Berger Blanc and the abysmal standards of animal care this for-profit business has become known for, it’s safe to ...
• Alesia’s Magnolias: Blooming only for a short while
  A little over a year ago my cousin and his wife lost their two-year-old daughter, Alesia. Already the parents of another girl, they were ...
• Alesia’s Magnolias: Blooming only for a short...
  While regular readers of my column know that I don’t shy away from strong opinions, I generally don’t broach very personal topics. But sometimes ...
• What can be extrapolated from this Ipsos poll?
  It has come to the Examiner’s attention that Ipsos-Décarie, one of the world's leading survey-based marketing research firms, claims not to ...
• Let the games begin…
  Barely a week into the federal campaign, and I’m already suffering from election fatigue. Politicians are everywhere; eager to be seen and ...
• Get your facts straight!
  According to Johnston’s article, when the City of Westmount pulled its advertising out of the Examiner and gave it to the Independent, we at the ...
• Decision makers should welcome citizen input
  True, there is a vocal minority that is actively denouncing the project (and believing that I fail to see their own -sometimes glaring- personal ...
• The Lieutenant of Inishmore is painfully funny
  The Lieutenant of Inishmore in its Quebec premiere is gory, violent, full of expletives, and one of the funniest and most entertaining ...
• WikiLeaks: real journalism or irresponsible...
  However, what’s highly troublesome to me is how governments around the world (particularly the U.S.) have chosen to react to, what, in ...
• Lansdowne residents continue to plead their case
  Patrick Barnard’s 28th instalment of the Pimento Report (you can watch the entire video on www.westmountwatch.org) is all about allowing ...
• Of dreams deferred and dreams denied
  Lorraine Hansberry borrowed this line from Hughes’ poem as not only the title but also the core of her story “A Raisin in the Sun”. In her ...
• Democracy can be such a bore sometimes…
  First of all, phone messages do nothing more than instigate conversation in the office. Thought-provoking as they may be for us, they offer very ...
• Michael Harris on Circus and the subjective nature...
  ”It’s both a nod to me and the work that they’ve done over the years,” he explains. The happily retired professor, who is now engaged in the ...
• Jesse Camacho: Losing it for the win
  Wanting to finally do something about it, he sought the help of a “dream team” of health professionals at Westmount’s Victoria Park gym, hoping ...
• Medea’s monstrous magic still compelling to me
  It’s really hard for me to explain my love for Medea, without sounding like a conceited, self-indulgent lover of classical Greek literature, but ...
• Scarlett James brings back Burlesque
  Those days are long gone, and today’s sex-obsessed society uses raunchy visuals to sell us pretty much everything under the sun. We’ve become ...
• Who decided that dissent is a bad thing?
  When a local paper decided to recently ‘out’ 10 of the 114 people who signed a register to hold a referendum on the financing of the arena/pool ...
• Racial profiling is alive and well in Montreal –...
  Suddenly the female resident, who, yes... happens to be black, was stopped by Westmount’s Public Security Unit. A female officer politely asked ...
• In the Shadow of Crows: a remarkable account of...
  In the Shadow of the Crows, written by David Charles Manners, recounts the true and moving story of Bindra, a woman in the Himalayan foothills ...
• Just like a waving flag…
  For a while, before Greece was eliminated, I, too, had the blue and white flag flying from my car. I’m not one for over-the-top patriotic ...
• Soul, Funk, and all that Jazz at this year’s Fest
  For 12 days, the corner of Ste. Catherine and Jeanne-Mance becomes Party Central, as music fans from around the world gather downtown to take in ...