Michael Enright is a writer and broadcaster who was a host for CBC Radio. We are all aware of air pollution and water pollution. We are surrounded by them. But I think we are less aware of another ...

Is it in bad taste to use the word "death" in condolence notes? I seem to have reached the stage of life in which the occasion to write such notes arises with increasing frequency, and I am ...

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As their parents are hauled off to concentration camps — euphemistically called “vocational education” by the Chinese authorities — the children are being herded into special boarding ...

I went shopping for toilet paper the other day. I didn’t find one single roll, and let me tell you why. Toilet paper does not exist. Nowhere in America can you find a product called “toilet ...

Last time, I asked for “a word for something that sounds like a euphemism but isn’t,” plus any relevant anecdotes. My favorite anecdote came from Samantha Timmerman, of Melrose and Vion ...