Josh Freed writes a humorous Saturday column about everything from potholes to politics to the pigeons who've taken over his back balcony in Montreal. You can find his most recent columns online at The Gazette.

In both 2002 and 1997 he won the National Newspaper Award for best Canadian columnist, while a collection of his columns also won the Leacock Prize for humor.

Between columns, Josh is an award-winning documentary-maker whose films have taken him from Mongolia and Russia to the North Pole. He has also written several best-selling books. Josh is directionally-disabled, calligraphy-challenged and hair-impaired, as his regular readers know. But he believes that he who laughs, lasts.