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Why are there no prizes for promising old writers?
I asked myself this on Monday when I and 600 others gathered at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to hear the British writer Robert Macfarlane give…
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Rich old white guys
I wish they had the grace to be content being all four of those things. But no. So many of them, especially in America, cast themselves not just as…
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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
Anthony Burgess wrote that, and as someone accused of rushing to go to the opening of an envelope, Not Going couldn’t come a moment too soon for me. In…
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That little $100 million.
In 2015, billionaire John Paulson donated $400 million to Harvard, the largest donation in its history. This prompted Malcolm Gladwell to enquire what…
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The Full Monthy Python
Twenty years ago, at 4:10 p.m. on August 14, the power went out across eastern Canada and the US, sparking the largest blackout in history. Jean and I…
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We don’t have a lack-of-doctors problem. We have a lack-of-access problem.
Hard time finding a family doctor? Scads of them have left town or stopped running clinics. It will get worse. Nearly 20% of Toronto family doctors plan…
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UFOs land on Congress floor.
Whatever happened to the good old days when the US government could hush up any news of UFOs? Now renamed UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), they’ve…
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