Imagine you’re Justin Trudeau’s speechwriter and you’re on the phone with his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeu, who will soon give a speech in support of her husband. She says that one of the people she has always liked is Laureen Harper, Stephen Harper’s wife. Over the phone, she reads some passages from Ms. Harper’s speeches […]
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We are not car people. Our car is 7 years old and the only route it knows is from downtown Toronto north to Georgian Bay, which it faithfully plies most every weekend. Beyond that, it’s clueless, and so are we. So when a connected colleague said we could have a new BMW 750 to use
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Without updated laws, doctors face prison for helping patients die on their own terms Two decades ago, a woman who was deeply involved in the right-to-die movement, died at home in Toronto after a long, gruesome illness. She was surrounded by her family, her doctor and her closest friends. Some days later, her obituary appeared,
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The site, size, design, charitable status, funding model and budget aren’t the only problems hobbling Ottawa’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism. There’s the matter of dignity and taste. It seems you can send $1,000 to the Tribute to Liberty group and get back not only a tax receipt but your name inscribed forever on
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Don Tapscott, meet Denzil Minnan-Wong. One of you is a visionary. The other, Toronto’s deputy mayor. Jane Jacobs, meet George Mammoliti. One of you is a visionary. The other, a Toronto city councillor. Mr. Tapscott was not at the debate at City Hall last Thursday, possibly because he was writing his front-page piece in Saturday’s
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WOODY POINT, NFLD-Writersat Woody Point is to summer festivals what Gros Morne is to natural splendours. Both are understated, full of surprises and oddly Canadian. They’re a 2-1/2-hour flight from Toronto to Deer Lake, then a 45-minute drive to Woody Point, the historic village on the western shore of Bonne Bay. An August week’s holiday
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What beats gender parity? Gender dominance. And it’s busting out in some telling places. Last month, media reported that women will outnumber men on what could turn out to be the most influential group of people around Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau. Also last month, a Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 787, with
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That question never entered our heads when we booked a trip from Toronto to Africa, cashing in our Aeroplan Miles to fly business class. When our travel agent booked us back home from Cape Town to Toronto, we hunkered down in the Turkish Airlines CIP Lounge at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport for the six-hour layover. One
When does an airline lounge become the reason to fly through a city? Read More »
NEW YORK-Rundown warehouses, dodgy streets, and zero nightlife filled the city’s Meatpacking District back in 2003. A year later, the boutique hotel Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC, opened at 9th Ave. and W. 13th St. Twelve years later, the hotel is credited with sparking the transformation that turned the area into the definition of New Cool. Price: $385 to
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Last month brought the news that nearly 20 per cent of Canada’s board members are women. That is a lot better than a decade ago, when it was 12 per cent, but no ovations yet, please – we are making progress much more slowly than others. In 2009, we stood sixth among industrialized countries. Last year, we
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Can strapping on a headset that puts you in a mountain meadow induce you to visit that actual meadow on your next vacation? The travel industry thinks so, and last week’s Globe article “Can virtual reality bring real tourists to B.C.?” practically yodels “YES!” in reply. I beg to disagree, or at least to pause in praising
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Today, tobacco is on the run in Canada and the U.S., and in Ontario, it’s even against the law to smoke in your own car if there’s passengers under the age of 16 with you. What did it take to turn tobacco from something everyone did to something only social pariahs dare keep doing? Timely
Doctors have killed tobacco. So why can’t they beat obesity? Read More »
