Doug Ford and Mark Carney keep telling Canadians "We are the Americans BIGGEST CUSTOMER for automobiles." Actually, the BIGGEST CUSTOMER for American automobiles is the Americans themselves. Canada represents a very small fraction of all sales. Image: Taxi News
Tariffs and trade wars will give Canadians lots of practice Update: This article was first published in 2020, when Canadians were figuring out how to cope with the financial pain of COVID-19. In honour of the needless 2026 trade “war”
Read MoreProfanity warning Beautiful Niki Grigoriadis and her husband John were my favourite office neighbours, ever. This piece was originally published in 2004 and remains one of my very favourite pieces. Before I posted it, I knocked on John Grigoriadis’ door
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The Globe headline on October 8, 2023 is eerily similar to the Globe headline on October 8th, 2005. Image: RWN
On October 8, 2005, the front page of the Globe and Mail was horrifying. A major earthquake had hit Pakistan in an area so remote that more than 20,000 people were expected to be dead and there was not even
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The illustration on the inside cover looked vaguely familiar; I thought I'd seen that photograph somewhere before too -- a tray full of little frosted petit-fours.
Monday morning, September 18, 2000, I was in my car and headed to a film company on Eastern Avenue. I was scheduled to be at a commercial shoot at 9:30 a.m. This was to be the last commercial of a
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What are the odds I would win a framed print of Bob Coglianese's famed photo of Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes during my Year of Secretariat? 100 per cent, apparently, given the power of thought. (Photo credit: Debra Sherman)
2023 is the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest athletic accomplishments in history: Secretariat’s Triple Crown remains an inspiration for all ages I had been dreading the arrival of June 9, 2013. I didn’t even realize I had
Read MoreShould you ever lie to kids? This became a topic of conversation in my life in the last few years, because I’ve been around kids so little, they were just beginning to grasp the fact that there are such things
Read Morehead·line ˈhedˌlīn/ noun a heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine. “a front-page headline” click·bait ˈklikbāt/ noun informal noun: click bait (on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage
Read MoreUpdate: This post was originally posted in 2016. The graphic above is from 2024. ***** Over the past year, I’ve read untold numbers of media stories and politicians’ enthusiastic quotes extolling Uber for its competitiveness. The taxi industry needs to
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High reliability organizations track even the smallest incidents, because they can predict that an increasing number of disabling injuries will eventually lead to a death. Image: Taxi News
Update November 12, 2024: This article was originally published on October 14, 2015. It has been updated with a new graphic image and is being posted in response to news releases by Peel Regional Police and York Regional Police. My
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