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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…
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….
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