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The philanthropist Arthur Labatt noted that Canada has so few institutions that can stand up straight on a global podium, we need to do everything we…
I hosted a RamsayTalk last week about AI.
Nothing new there. The world is awash in AI pundits, AI books, and AI doom and rapture.
What…
If so, Canadians should be the most virtuous people on earth. But does virtue count for anything these days? I mean, aside from offering…
The news that Flo’s Diner in Toronto had closed hit me hard. But why? It was just a diner.
True, I’ve eaten there since it opened on Bellair in…
I fear the domino of much-loved arts groups gasping their last breath has just begun:
– Soulpepper and Factory Theatre Lab have had to pull…
There’s not a government on earth that doesn’t have political staffers. History and Shakespeare are littered with them. Their job is to keep their…
In 2021, I launched my memoir online. I used an idea from my friend, Robert Rotenberg, who’d launched his latest novel online earlier that year (and who…
Twenty years ago we took the Hurtigruten, Norway’s storied sea-ferry service, up the Norwegian coast, docking at tiny towns where it delivered mail, passengers and…
Anthropologist Wade Davis’ famous dictum in The Wayfinders on the wisdom of indigenous cultures hit home when we heard a talk off the coast of Fiji this week…
It isn’t Alexei Navalny whose body Russian authorities still aren’t serving up, even though they announced his death on Feb. 16. It’s another Russian.
He was not…
As surely as we believe that fat makes you fat, heart surgery demands bedrest, and wet sidewalks cause rain, we believe that abused women…
Last Saturday night, we attended a performance by a baroque music group in a church on Bloor Street in Toronto. Even in the plumpest of…
If you had a fantasy friend when you were a kid, or led an active fantasy life when you grew up, you’re in for…
He will likely retire when the Liberals are defeated in the next federal election, an outcome most every poll points to, which should be in October…
Donald Trump didn’t just win in Iowa. He won Huge!
But recall that two weeks before the Iowa caucuses in 2016, then-candidate Trump said at Dortd…
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