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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….
Composing an out-of-office message used to take 30 seconds and was usually written minutes before you headed to the airport on vacation. As a…
It’s fun and easy to mock the dervishes of politically-correct language.
But the thinking behind it masks a righteousness that would hang anyone who…
The CEO of the United States of America, the world’s largest organization, with $27 trillion in turnover and 333 million employees, is 81 years…
My mom used to say that to describe anything that spilled over the guardrails of usualness in 1960s Edmonton – like Pierre Trudeau, or…
Politicians everywhere appeal to people who look, talk and act like them.
Given this universal truth, it’s revealing who Donald Trump appeals to because…
On October 5, 2017, The New York Times published shocking allegations about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation. Four months later I hosted a RamsayTalk with the co-author…
I’ve always liked Celine Dion’s songs more than I’ve liked Celine Dion.
I’m not sure what it was: too slick, too produced, too perfect.
Then she…
Yeats was referring to Ireland when he began Sailing to Byzantium with that line in 1933, and the Coen Brothers used it as the…
Jean and I went on an adventure this week, kayaking off the coast of Maine, which meant my Saturday blog didn’t get done, but…
Katalin Karikó said that when she won a Gairdner Award in 2022 for co-discovering the foundations of mRNA vaccines, which have saved millions and…
I had a bad stammer as a teen. And to this day, whenever I’m around a person who has a stammer, I start to…
The New York Times’ food critic Sam Sifton blurted that out at a Toronto symposium back in 2018 when he chaired a panel with three Syrian refugees, all…
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