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Yachting, polo, squash and fencing are what I call upper class sports. You need a lot of money, or go to prep school with…
A quarter of a century back, my wife Jean and I formed a mid-life women’s running group to run the Marine Corps Marathon. Over…
Which begs the question: why do we travel anyway?
Because we’re curious, of course, about places and things, but most of all, about people. Boy,…
Jan Morris once said that Canadians could drown in niceness.
We are notorious for being polite, a view borne out by countless polls that confirm…
In 2008 Switzerland passed a law that made owning one guinea pig illegal.
Today, pet stores in Zurich won’t sell you a single guinea pig…
Rich people give their millions to charities for as many reasons as there are rich people. The fight for love and glory is surely…
Sports tourism used to mean spending a week in Dunedin watching the Jays in spring training, or running the Berlin marathon with a gang…
If you read about AI and turn the page, thinking it’s not for you, or you’re too old to learn now, or technology and…
Millions of girls were once aborted for being girls. But now, the stunning decline in having boys reflects their sharp fall in value to…
When I was a kid, the big fear, aside from a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union, was too many people. The world’s population…
This week thousands of Canary Islanders marched against the 18 million tourists who visit the tiny Spanish island chain each year.
One marcher said, “We’re…
Even in the 1970s if you drove 10 minutes outside any Canadian city, you would be in the bush, or on a country road. But…
The opportunity for one of the most patriotism-shy nations on earth to gorge on that very thing begins the week of May 12. That’s…
Until a few years ago, the chances of seeing a woman on the podium conducting an orchestra were approximately zero.
Today, they’re popping up everywhere….
Last weekend an ad appeared in The Globe and Mail announcing a campaign to raise $30 million “to bring the best scientific minds to…
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