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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…
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…
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