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Quebec Betrays the Whole Internet for $27M

Quebec is trying to block on-line gambling sites. That might not be a bad thing when you consider that Quebec’s suicide rate leads all ot...

Everyone Wants to Regulate the Regulator

It’s beginning to look like some sort of end is nigh for the Canadian Radio-televison and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a develop...

Live and up Close with Six Conservative Leadership Hopefuls

I had the pleasure of moderating a debate – actually, more of a discussion -- among six candidates for the Conservative Party leadership ...

Judge Roy Bean and the Closing of the Digital Frontier

One of Paul Newman’s most underrated performances came in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. It was released at the end of 1972, right...

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Canada's Non-Fiction Crisis

Do You Ever Need An Editor!

Back When People Lived Lives

The New Goldrush

Daniel Defoe on Covid-19

How to Write a Life

Who's Canceling Whom

"Surpasses Even Shakespeare"

Burning a Literary City

A Visit with Grumpy Ben

The Only Way to be a Writer

Break Them Up!

Caring for Books

There are too Many Books

This Dangerous Business

Inside Bill's Bag

The Only Way to be a Writer

Ms. Amiel's Friends & Enemies

Break them Up

My Interview with Santa

Best of the Best '20

All the Latest on Random Penguins

How Much of Life is Luck?

Book Sales Go Nuts

Writing About an Ex

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