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Ask anyone to write a letter to their 25-year-old self and they won’t be kind.
Indeed, given the responses to our writing contest last month…
For years, I’ve yearned for The Economist’s 16-page supplements, which I could rip from the magazine and read on my flight to Ottawa and…
Hope.
And we all got a jolt of it on Tuesday when the Democrats won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia by big fat…
I took in two award shows last week, one at Koerner Hall and the other at the ROM next door.
The recipients weren’t powerlifters…
I don’t know much about art. I especially don’t ‘get’ abstract art. This has caused me to avoid it and to shy away from…
Last weekend our family went for its annual Thanksgiving Walk, a two-hour hike through Awenda Provincial Park above Georgian Bay. Behind me were my…
Last week Pete Hegseth dressed down America’s generals and admirals saying their weight and height will now be measured twice a year: “Today, at…
When you’re too addled to stop drinking booze or snorting cocaine, your brain stays very clear on one thing: the only person you’re killing…
In the days ahead we’ll be seeing more tremulous, slow-talking, slow-moving people in public life. This is inevitable; our world is growing older. It’s…
The idea that there is no cavalry first hit me in 2005 when I saw the news reports fromHurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Tens of…
Donald Trump will soon send the National Guard into Memphis or into Chicago, a city where violent crime has been way down and the White…
The word “Ozempic” first entered the language in 2018 when it was approved as a diabetes inhibitor. That same year, in what has to…
Yachting, polo, squash and fencing are what I call upper class sports. You need a lot of money, or go to prep school with…
A quarter of a century back, my wife Jean and I formed a mid-life women’s running group to run the Marine Corps Marathon. Over…
Which begs the question: why do we travel anyway?
Because we’re curious, of course, about places and things, but most of all, about people. Boy,…
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