Summer 1999

A Checkered Present

A Checkered Present

Something just didn’t look right. Veronica Cusack, then chief of research for Toronto…

Down and out in Cusco and Bangkok

Down and out in Cusco and Bangkok

Some of the street children of Cusco, Peru, are no more than…

Off With Their Heads!

Off With Their Heads!

Alan King had been the staff editorial cartoonist at the Ottawa Citizen for 15…

The Notorious Peggy Wente

The Notorious Peggy Wente

Just after 9 a.m. on a cool autumn morning, Margaret Wente is…

Death by a Thousand Cuts?

Death by a Thousand Cuts?

Three minutes before airtime. An editorial assistant darts up to the host…

Gambling with Integrity

Gambling with Integrity

It’s July 27, 1998. As the sun sinks behind the Detroit skyline,…

Bright Lights, Small City

Bright Lights, Small City

The bright afternoon sun illuminates the crimson and gold autumn leaves of…

After a Refashion

After a Refashion

Inside the conference room at CB Media Ltd., Art Johnson, editor of Canadian…

”Ah, that a man should live so well”

”Ah, that a man should live so well”

At last spring’s convocation for the University of King’s College, the keynote…

Sins of Omission(2)

Sins of Omission(2)

The silence was powerful. On November 7, 1997, just days before the…