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Three years ago I was having lunch with an old friend. The soup sounded good, so I ordered it. I dipped my spoon into…
Ottawa is opening the taps to secure our future, just not for the part that tells us who we are.In last month’s fiscal update,…
A marathon is the distance between the Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville and the Ford Assembly Plant in Oakville.I used to say that when…
Years ago, we went to Austin, Texas, home to SXSW and a concert format we’d never experienced.A friend who knew a local musician would…
Last month I wrote about the Jewish community’s fear and rage around the shooting up of synagogues. I said… “If someone fired shots in…
You have to be smart (or nepo-ed) to get into Harvard.54,008 students applied for this year’s Freshman class and just 1,937 (or 3.58%) were…
Canada’s Governor General Mary Simon is bilingual. Her first language is Inuktitut and her second is English. She’s not fluent in French. But this…
Sarah Palin used them in 2009 to fight Obamacare reforms by scaring U.S. voters into thinking that groups of doctors would decide which patients…
Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic of the Globe and Mail. Last weekend, he wrote a column titled “Doug Ford’s obsession to expand downtown…
In the span of a few days, three Toronto-area synagogues were hit last week by gunfire. Temple Emanu‑El in North York was struck during…
Last year I joined all three of Canada’s major political parties. Not because I can’t make up my mind, but I love getting their…
The only time Canada won no gold medals in the 102-year history of the Winter Olympics was in 1988 when it hosted the games…
I’ve held off writing about the Epstein scandal because it’s growing faster than any cancer, and like the worst cancers it changes direction at…
Trump Tower, Trump Hotel, Trump (and Kennedy) Center, Trump Institute, Trump Park, Trump Highway, Trump Boulevard and, as of last week, Trump Station (replacing…
I was meeting someone new for coffee. He’d come via a mutual friend and was starting a new career in his mid-50s that overlapped…
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