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Windham Labec had never noticed ‘Tony’s Barber Shop’ before, and, feeling a little scraggly, decided to stop in. “Eh,” said the barber, greeting him in a thick accent as he worked on a customer seated in the barber’s chair. “Hey,” said Windham, chuckling a bit to himself. What were the odds that ‘Tony’ the barber … Read more

When Alice felt like she needed a little personal time, she would go to her secret jar on her bookcase, stuck behind Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”. This was her therapy; there were 40 loonies in the jar, but no matter how precisely she counted, the end result was always the same. “Rabbit Dollars’. The sum of … Read more

The neighbours all had snow blowers, but Mac Mollins was a traditionalist, and for his money, nothing beat a shovel and hard work. He’d often start shoveling before it had even stopped snowing, just doing his part to “keep winter green,’ as he joked to the neighbours, most of whom were weirded out by him. … Read more