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A decade ago, after my open-heart surgery, I was feeling depressed. This happens a lot to people who’ve had their hearts cracked open, fixed…
Toronto regularly makes it onto the lists of the world’s great cities (as in ‘great to live in’). But the world’s safest cities? I…
Which is as different for Humpty Dumpty as hearing “Have a great Fall” is for you. So now that the leaves are really turning…
I was checking my Instagram feed one night three years ago when I scrolled past this post: “Where has my beautiful love gone? It’s…
Whistleblowers don’t use whistles anymore. They rarely pass manila envelopes.
Today, revealing secrets is done online, whether that’s ransomware which can make your private medical…
It was a good week for Canadians: we got our two Michaels back and we got a day to remember that we can change…
Hostage books take up a tiny speck in the vast universe of books published each year.
The stories themselves may be harrowing, but their half-lives…
So many people are dying of COVID in Alberta’s ICU wards that their passing is creating room for new patients. That’s the only good…
Last weekend was so glorious. But this weekend? Our trees are spawning a rainforest. Where was all this wet in the summer? In BC?…
Likely from heart disease or cancer, which is what 52% of the world’s 8 billion people will die from, no matter their age or…
Summer in southern Ontario is three months long. But in this very bad year, we’ve been blessed with the first five-month summer in many…
I was in New York on September 10, 2001 to meet travel editors. I wrote a lot. I travelled a lot. So, I thought,…
…that 9/11 happened. So please spare a memory for those who died and for how our world has grown much less stable in the…
My wife is the ultimate realist. But she’s always been a royalist too, which proves you can hold two opposed ideas in your head…
“None of our staff has been beaten, attacked, killed, as far as I know,” she said.
That’s what an Afghan woman who runs a women’s…
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