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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…
I was on a flight home from Frankfurt last week playing with one of the things Air Canada got right: its storehouse of movies…
No matter which parliamentarians, if any, are exposed for sleeping with the enemy, the penalty for doing that has changed drastically.
It used to…
Two years ago, I got my first whiff that hotels cost staggeringly more than they did before the pandemic.
Some American friends were coming to…
“Last to Die” is a form of life insurance, like its cousin “First to Die”.
But with people dying much later in life (if you’re a baby…
I used to walk from “A” to “B” in downtown Toronto to feel good about myself. Clocking 10,000 steps on my FitBit; finding delightful…
One great lesson the pandemic taught us is how to buy everything online. I take great pride that, just by typing a few keys,…
Back in 2019 when newspapers were made of paper, I would take part in an annual ritual of disbelief: I’d turn the page of…
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