What Do You Mean Trump/Brexit Won't Happen Here?
A very enjoyable evening last night with Timothy Garton Ash, the Oxford historian and sometimes journalist who delivered the Donner...
I'm Riding High on Trudeaumania
I took the assignment because my friend Sarmishta Subramanian is the new editor of the Literary Review of Canada and I wanted to share a...
Canadian CEOs Don't Know They're Chickenshits
Excellent piece in Canadian Business magazine on the illusory superiority of Canadian CEOs. They all think they're courageous. But they...
Saving Journalism (Pt. II): The Mega-Fund
Richard Stursberg, author, former CBC executive, former Ottawa culturcrat, and current Garth Drabinsky collaborator, has emerged with the...
Saving Journalism (Pt. I): Open Google's Wallet!
The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting asked the Commons Finance committee last week to make Google and Facebook contribute to the...
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...
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...
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...
