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On September 24, 1988, the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson placed first in the 100-metre dash, setting a new world record at the Seoul Olympics….
No one knows; it’s just too early to tell.
But the fact that it’s even possible to ask the question speaks to how fast and…
Last week Louise Penny pulled the plug on her appearance at The Kennedy Center to launch her new mystery, The Grey Wolf.
Said Penny: “I’m in…
In 2024 the New York Times launched a reader contest, inviting their teenage readers to tell a true story about a meaningful life experience in just 100…
For live music lovers, Hugh’s Room was a tiny perfect venue on Roncesvalles with a name as big as the El Mocambo and even…
My $200 cheque arrived in the mail this week: a gift from Doug Ford to every adult in Ontario. I hadn’t thought much about…
Dividing up the world after a war is one of humankind’s most cherished activities.
The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, not only extracted such severe…
The Angus Reid Institute revealed last month that the percentage of us who feel “very proud” to be Canadians has fallen from 78% in 1985 to…
I’m the last person to want to bring bad news where it’s not welcome.
But I’m going to add to the national bonfire by pointing…
James Watson said that. The co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix and Nobel Prize winner was in Toronto years ago when someone asked him what (I think he…
Last week in England, a vicar told a group of Grade 6 pupils that Santa Claus isn’t real.
He then told them their parents ate the…
The fact that this question is even askable, let alone answerable, speaks to how drinking is fading, and what role your own diminished drinking…
Yesterday, December 6, marked the 35th anniversary of the Montreal massacre when 25-year-old Marc Lépine murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 (as well as 4…
It’s not been a month since Americans voted in surprising, even shocking ways to put Donald Trump back in office. The time-honoured categories of…
I had open heart surgery in 2011. Two days later my heart stopped. In the weeks that followed, while my body healed, my psyche…
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