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RUGBY IN VEGAS, TOUR DE FRANCE IN SCOTLAND.

Sports tourism used to mean spending a week in Dunedin watching the Jays in spring training, or running the Berlin marathon with a gang from the Beaches Running Club, or going to New York to watch the US Open, or across to Jersey for the Super Bowl. No more.

The days of flying somewhere to see your favourite team have morphed into your favourite team flying somewhere to see you. This spring, The Wigan Warriors played theWarrington Wolves, two Northern England towns just 18 km apart, to a packed Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, among them 15,000 British rugby fans who didn’t have to fly 8,400 kilometres or spend thousands of US dollars each to see a rugby match, but did.

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THE ENDURING RESILIENCE OF SEXUAL MONSTERS.

On October 5, 2017, Jodi Kantor and Meg Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator in The New York Times. Just days later, Ronan Farrow (Woody Allen’s son) expanded that story in The New Yorker.

Those two pieces sparked a revolution in how men should behave with women
at the office and on the shop floor. It was just months before the #MeToo movement swept dozens of men from their jobs and rewrote the rules of engagement between men and women, especially men and women with vastly different degrees of power.

Here in Canada, soon after The Times pieces, The Globe and Mail tried to get the goods on our own business leaders who were thought to act like Weinstein. (All our media had been stung by the CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi, but he was fired eons before in 2014, and then found not guilty at trial two years later).

The Globe wasn’t able to turn up much.

The Best of Healthcare. The Worst of Healthcare.

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 Rest of Canada system.

If you happen to live in the Greater Toronto Area, the 6.2 million of you are luckier than the other 31.8 million Canadians who don’t.

Got cancer? Get treated at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, one of the Top 10 oncology centres in the world.

Heart disease? The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, one of the top heart hospitals in the world. 

If you’re a sick child, or their parent, take them to Sick Kids, the best children’s hospital anywhere.

Need physical rehab? There’s the  Toronto Rehabilitation Institute whose research arm is also the best in the world.

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