Many years ago, a professor at Dalhousie University told Dr. George Burden, a former writer for this magazine, an apocryphal story about Sir William Osler that had been passed down like an old rumour or a running joke.
During a day spent making announcements in the greater Hamilton area, Ontario Premier Doug Ford stopped in at Hauser's Pharmacy where his team filmed a short video showing him speaking with the pharmacy team.
As we all traverse this world of social media and the spread of hate based on race, religion and sexual orientation, it remains an open question whether Canada’s compromise of balancing the right to freedom of speech with other rights, will curtail hate crimes.