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We went to the Toronto Symphony last week and heard their first live performance at Roy Thomson Hall in 20 months.
I got an e-mail…
Cancel culture is the opposite of multi-culture. And as the world’s most multi-cultural country, this should worry Canadians more than most. As Michelle Goldberg…
I view our vaccination certificates the way I do my computer password. It’s the key to an infinitely magical kingdom. With one I can…
I knew he was old and saw he was growing frail as he slowly climbed the stairs to the second floor of his studio…
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…
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