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I had open heart surgery in 2011. Two days later my heart stopped. In the weeks that followed, while my body healed, my psyche…
The Giller Prize ceremony takes place on Monday.
Two big things have changed since last year’s Giller. It’s no longer called The Scotiabank Giller Prize because of…
They become them. It takes time to learn the skills of dictatorship, just as it does anything else. 10,000 hours hardly gets you into…
Last week I was walking on Bloor Street past the hoardings on the new Royal Ontario Museum, the kickstart of their second make-good to…
I’m sure the ‘woke’ movement began with clean hands and an open heart.
A decade ago, too many people were kept away from the corridors…
“…that gets you into trouble.” As Mark Twain said: “It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
This can mean anything from “My…
Years ago I had lunch with the clinical director of a global pharma. Earlier that day, the world learned that his company had been…
My first experience with the politics of “Ready, fire, aim…” happened long ago at Queen’s Park in Toronto, the heartbeat of Ontario’s government.
The province’s…
On October 5, 2017, Jodi Kantor and Meg Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator in The New York Times….
Composing an out-of-office message used to take 30 seconds and was usually written minutes before you headed to the airport on vacation. As a…
It’s fun and easy to mock the dervishes of politically-correct language.
But the thinking behind it masks a righteousness that would hang anyone who…
The CEO of the United States of America, the world’s largest organization, with $27 trillion in turnover and 333 million employees, is 81 years…
My mom used to say that to describe anything that spilled over the guardrails of usualness in 1960s Edmonton – like Pierre Trudeau, or…
Politicians everywhere appeal to people who look, talk and act like them.
Given this universal truth, it’s revealing who Donald Trump appeals to because…
On October 5, 2017, The New York Times published shocking allegations about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation. Four months later I hosted a RamsayTalk with the co-author…
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