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Last week I fell across a funny Australian news site, The Shovel, whose top story was headlined, “Man announces he will quit drinking by…
A single cold night in one tiny place on earth tells us why it’s not called weather change, but climate change. And as we’re…
Last weekend, I was hiking with a dozen friends near Lion’s Den on Fogo Island. It was the most desolate part of this desolate…
Five years ago, a dozen Bay Street Boys were seated around the table at a breakfast at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. They’d…
What a strange country we survive in. There’s a hotel in Tofino, BC, the Wickaninnish Inn, that markets “storm-watching” as a reason to check…
Yes, they’re kidnapping Canadians off the street, imprisoning over a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, using AI to spy on far too many of…
This conversation popped back when I read that Edward Rogers’ secret plot to remove his CEO, Joe Natale, was foiled when Edward’s candidate for…
On Fogo Island, off the north coast of Newfoundland, there are seven seasons in the year, not four. Late October marks the end of…
There are two health-care systems in Canada. Not just the public and private ones. But the Toronto system and the…well, let’s call it The…
We now know that systemic racism is largely unconscious because it’s baked into our culture. It took the remains of hundreds of Indigenous and…
Autumn officially landed three weeks ago on September 22.
But September was one of the two bonus months (along with May) we were blessed to…
A decade ago, after my open-heart surgery, I was feeling depressed. This happens a lot to people who’ve had their hearts cracked open, fixed…
Toronto regularly makes it onto the lists of the world’s great cities (as in ‘great to live in’). But the world’s safest cities? I…
Which is as different for Humpty Dumpty as hearing “Have a great Fall” is for you. So now that the leaves are really turning…
I was checking my Instagram feed one night three years ago when I scrolled past this post: “Where has my beautiful love gone? It’s…
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