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Recent work

• Canada and Greenland are just the start. If you listen to what Trump, Musk and their friends are really saying, it gets much scarierOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 12, 2025
• Creationism. Climate change denial. Conversion therapy. As Justin Trudeau dithers, radical Conservatives are making their moveOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 21, 2024
• Jagmeet Singh is embarrassing himselfOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 18, 2024
• Chrystia Freeland knows how to handle autocrats and little boys like Donald Trump. Justin Trudeau doesn’t have a clueOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 17, 2024
• Rob Ford humiliated Toronto, and himself. He was also my friend. I’m still struggling with the world he created, then left behindOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 12, 2024
• What do you know about Toronto’s out-of-this-stratosphere, utterly deranged, totally heartbreaking market for houses and homes?Opinion · Toronto Star · Aug 14, 2024
• What J.D. Vance’s Catholicism means in Trump’s AmericaOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 27, 2024
• The case for sponge sidewalks in TorontoOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 22, 2024
• Michael Coren: Despite the revelations about Alice Munro, her work still deserves to be readOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 20, 2024
• This is the real tragedy of Niall Horan’s noisy, smelly, traffic-induced walk through Toronto’s downtownOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 4, 2024
• The U.S. Supreme Court made the president a king. Can another American Revolution be far behind?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 1, 2024
• Making schools display the Ten Commandments exposes more than just hypocrisyOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 25, 2024
• If this chain restaurant dies, part of me will, tooOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 1, 2024
• If Red Lobster dies, part of me will, tooOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 1, 2024
• Open tendering would help Toronto build a better cityOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 19, 2023
• Watching the Duggar documentary on Amazon Prime has ripped open old woundsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 11, 2023
• Canada must strengthen its woefully weak whistleblower legislationOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 4, 2023
• Body-worn cameras for youth soccer referees will not curb abuseOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 3, 2023
• It’s time to pay attention to what mothers and caregivers really needOpinion · Toronto Star · May 13, 2023
• Why white leaders need more racial literacyOpinion · Toronto Star · May 5, 2023
• Why the CBC should quit Twitter and run its own Mastodon serverOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 19, 2023
• Which level of government will save the TTC?Opinion · Toronto Star · Apr 11, 2023
• Bill C-18 would ensure big tech companies pay for use of Canadian journalismOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 31, 2023
• A centralized booking system for specialists would revolutionize health careOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 24, 2023
• Mark Saunders: Community safety must be city’s priorityOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 20, 2023
• ‘I am living proof that not everything on social media is as it seems’Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 12, 2023
• Driving lessons I have learned from commuting across the GTA for 40 yearsOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 26, 2023
• Lights, camera, advertising at the Super BowlOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 10, 2023
• Hidden camera in U.S. slaughterhouse shows horror of gassing pigsOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 8, 2023
• First Black PC cabinet minister inspires a new generation of womenOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 29, 2023
• Academic papers written by AI get a solid B — but is it cheating?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 21, 2023
• Quarries must be close to Toronto’s developmentOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 15, 2023
• When grass and weeds bylaws are weaponized against habitat and biodiversityOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 27, 2022
• ‘A bleak, high-tax future’: The hidden cost of sprawl developmentOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 26, 2022
• Embracing neurodiversity will build a more prosperous Canada — but the onus on inclusivity falls upon all of usOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 24, 2022
• ‘Et tu, Conrad?’ Even the ever-loyal Lord Black has turned on Donald TrumpOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 17, 2022
• It’s good the government has promised a Canada Disability Benefit. Here’s how to fix the flawed billOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 6, 2022
• An enormous embarrassment for Stephen Lecce and Doug FordOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 6, 2022
• Trying to understand Ontario’s high-cost, high-risk, and high-emissions electricity pathOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 4, 2022
• Canada Post is investing in wrong banking modelOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 31, 2022
• With rising food prices, is ‘greedflation’ at work?Opinion · Toronto Star · Oct 24, 2022
• Incrementalism likely an enemy of our health system this winterOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 21, 2022
• Let’s bring back licence fees — and make them progressiveOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 13, 2022
• Proposed data privacy law favour industry over individualsOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 6, 2022
• ‘A better system is possible’: Asking Canadians what kind of family doctor care they wantOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 5, 2022
• A huge upside to recognizing rights for migrants living in CanadaOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 23, 2022
• Canada’s workers are walking toward an EI benefits cliff this weekendOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 21, 2022
• Pierre Poilievre not fit to pick Bank of Canada governorOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 21, 2022
• Pierre Poilievre is a fake freedom fighterOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 17, 2022
• ‘Enough is enough’: Putting a stop to the harassment of doctors who speak out on public health measuresOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 14, 2022
• Pierre Poilievre’s first act a success; expect more to comeOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 11, 2022
• Don’t be scared into supporting privatized health careOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 11, 2022
• At Ticketmaster, the price isn’t rightOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 10, 2022
• Quebec politicians now seek to separate ‘us’ from ‘them’Opinion · Toronto Star · Sep 9, 2022
• Declaration of principles must be at core of Ontario Liberals’ rebirthOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 17, 2022
• The RCMP has an important role to play — one that shouldn’t include functioning as a provincial police forceOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 10, 2022
• Why does Canada still allow torture here at home?Opinion · Toronto Star · Aug 9, 2022
• Non-stop political spin is derailing serious debate over schoolsOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 7, 2022
• An actor’s campaign against anti-Arab and Muslim stereotypes in HollywoodOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 5, 2022
• Chrystia Freeland is right on ‘friend-shoring.’ Our allies need Canada to help reduce dependence on Russian energyOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 30, 2022