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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,…
Jan Morris once said that Canadians could drown in niceness.
We are notorious for being polite, a view borne out by countless polls that confirm…
In 2008 Switzerland passed a law that made owning one guinea pig illegal.
Today, pet stores in Zurich won’t sell you a single guinea pig…
Rich people give their millions to charities for as many reasons as there are rich people. The fight for love and glory is surely…
Sports tourism used to mean spending a week in Dunedin watching the Jays in spring training, or running the Berlin marathon with a gang…
If you read about AI and turn the page, thinking it’s not for you, or you’re too old to learn now, or technology and…
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