![]() Well, the good news is the rest of the world has forgotten about Rob Ford. Here, in no particular order, are some of the stories - some significant, some definitely not - that Times Colonist readers will remember from 2016. Here on Fantasy Island it felt a long way away from the grimness of the globe - not that we didn’t have our own reasons for sorrow. (including the slaughter of 50 in a Florida gay bar). Other events seemed all too predictable: the world’s failure to deal with the horror of Aleppo, the latest string of terrorist attacks (Istanbul, Nice, Lahore, Brussels, Berlin …) and the latest mass shootings in the U.S. ![]() “Post-truth” became the word of the year. Still, there were reasons to celebrate: the African Ebola outbreak was contained, global literacy rates hit a new high and the Toronto Maple Leafs finished dead last in the NHL (this last one might reflect a personal bias). The world offered plenty of reasons to be frightened in 2016. ![]()
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