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I went to an event in Toronto on Wednesday to hear five Muslim speakers talk about the war between Israel and Hamas. The room…
I know some couples who are household names in business and public service. They check all the boxes: virtuous without being virtue-signallers, hard-working…
Just as Hamas hides within the general population of Gaza, so do Canada’s antisemites walk among us. And since October 7th both these groups…
It’s easy to do, especially in Canada where our military is starved into invisibility and seems to have missed the gender revolution completely.
Sure,…
Two scandals this week show how the business of shame is always evolving.
The first involves Buffy Sainte-Marie who seemed as Indigenous as can be.
But…
Do you think Jews should pay twice what non-Jews pay to attend the University of Toronto? Or Blacks twice as much as whites to…
I got my first ‘holiday’ appeal for a donation this week. By the week before Jesus’ Birthday, our inboxes will be groaning with these…
On October 7, George Achi, the CBC’s Director of Journalistic Standards and Practices and Public Trust, e-mailed all CBC journalists, urging them not to…
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In Quebec, where the Magpie River in 2021 was recognized as a legal person with nine legal rights, including the right to flow, to…
Question: do we enjoy things because they’re new or because they’re old?
Answer: Yes.
This is true in every endeavour, culture, life, and even secret life….
I asked myself this on Monday when I and 600 others gathered at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to hear the British writer…
I wish they had the grace to be content being all four of those things.
But no.
So many of them, especially in America,…
Anthony Burgess wrote that, and as someone accused of rushing to go to the opening of an envelope, Not Going couldn’t come a moment…
In 2015, billionaire John Paulson donated $400 million to Harvard, the largest donation in its history. This prompted Malcolm Gladwell to enquire what …
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