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Column: NORCAT, on bidding adieu
I met Darryl Lake around 40 years ago. He was the dean of Health Sciences and Technology at Cambrian College and I was in the early years of publishing Northern Life newspaper in Sudbury.
Jun 25, 2015 4:04 PM
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Column: The Club of Rome comes to Annapolis Royal
I made a brief return to the homeland (Nova Scotia) last week for a little business and family. A cousin welcomed me for tea. She apologized for the lack of biscuits and explained her car had been stuck in the driveway since Feb. 28.
Apr 24, 2015 1:08 PM
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Who is the quack in this age of media quackery?
I’m lucky. I have a number of friends and colleagues whom I have known for many years.
Apr 22, 2015 4:53 PM
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Column: It’s all about polytetrafluoroethylene
Politics is always potentially crazy and fraught with intrigue. And why not. It’s about power, and power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. The curious thing is trying to figure out what it is that determines success or failure.
Mar 5, 2015 4:14 PM
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Column: Welcome to the Zero Cost Marginal Society
I was in Ottawa a while back to celebrate Christmas with our employees at Conceptshare Inc. and found myself face to face with the new and rapidly expanding “sharing economy.
Jan 22, 2015 4:57 PM
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Column: Ron Heale: the wildest accountant I ever knew
My friend died a few weeks ago battling for life the way he lived it: full throttle. I met Ron in the fall of 1973. I was the editor of the Manitoulin Expositor. I didn’t know anyone in Sudbury and needed an accountant. Someone recommended Ron.
Dec 16, 2014 2:25 PM
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Column: NPI: a small miracle for the North
My love affair with Northern Ontario started in a small dingy office in the Port Arthur Post Office next door to Michael Gravelle, our current minister of Northern Development and Mines. It was 1971.
Nov 20, 2014 3:14 PM
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Column: From the riverboat to Brenda Wallace room
When I was in my teens in the 1960s, I used to steal away from Don Mills, Canada’s first completely planned and boring community, and go downtown to Yorkville, in Toronto, where something really seemed to be happening.
Jul 7, 2014 7:16 PM
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Column: A trip down memory lane: an island
It’s been a long time since I took a little time out waiting for the old swing bridge at Little Current, Manitoulin Island, to grant me access to this fantastic “largest freshwater lake island in the world.
Jun 5, 2014 3:42 PM
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Column: Occasionally, you have to pay for what you need
It was a modest start, but my fabulous career at the CBC began at the old Parliament Street radio studio in Toronto where each Friday night the Nimmons “N” Nine Jazz Trio played a fantastic live jazz concert.
May 2, 2014 3:45 PM
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