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Most Canadians are stunned to learn that the biggest tariffs Canadians pay aren’t to the U.S., but to each other.
The IMF estimates that interprovincial…
British historian Peter Frankopan said in Kardamyli last week that every rise in global temperature brings a rise in antisemitism. His confidence in connecting…
Since maps aren’t reality, but merely imitate reality, they are prone to all the slings and arrows of human error, ambition, greed and folly.
Recently,…
Last week at Bloor and Bay I saw a bedraggled man pick himself up off the sidewalk and nonchalantly jab a needle into his…
On November 22, 1963, when JFK was shot? (Me: at prep school in Port Hope. A student ran into the dining hall yelling: “Kennedy…
A year and a half ago, when the full horror of Donald Trump’s dismantling of America was just a White House work order, the…
If we can slag organizations when they fail us, surely we can thank them when they go out of their way to help us….
Last week Barry Hertz of the Globe and Mail reported on yet another scandal on Toronto’s waterfront, the continued closure of the Cinesphere at…
On January 24, 1961, thirty thousand feet above Goldsboro, North Carolina, a B-52 carrying two 3.8-megaton hydrogen bombs, broke apart in midair.
Both bombs began…
And when you’re wrong with 6,000 people reading why you’re wrong, well, I’m gulping the gulp you gulp when all you can say is:…
The real story about Doug Ford and the northern Ontario wildfires isn’t the loud press conference he’s holding twice a day in Thunder Bay….
Jean and I are huge Stratford fans. Most every summer, we get in the car, head west on the 401 and gorge on Shakespeare…
Three years ago, AI was a tekkies’ fever dream, barely real but high on the magic of what’s coming.
Two years ago, AI could put…
This week, the Quebec town of Terrasse-Vaudreuil became the first government in Canada to recognize trees as living things with rights.
It is part of…
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