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International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail -- Canada's National Newspaper -- author of Arrival City & MAXIMUM CANADA

Toronto
Joined March 2009

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    I have a new book coming out soon! It's about Canada and underpopulation - the history, the problem, the solutions

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    9 hours ago

    I read this over the holidays. As a former historian, I enjoyed the immigration history in the first half, and as a professional urbanist, I enjoyed the second half equally: Saunders recognizes that Canada's future is, or should be, to be a nation of cities. Highly recommended!

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    I wrote this when French politicians got hacked but it applies to Germany now. Just because something got hacked doesn’t mean journalists have to amplify every bit. Instead, a high bar for newsworthiness should be applied. Don’t get played like US press.

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  4. The German private-data leak occurred two days after this guy was sent to jail, and came from the site he ran. It’s worth reading this thread

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    Jan 3

    The larger threat to the world economy is not global tensions but the force of a billion people frustrated with a regime that hasn’t given them the lives they expected, says

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  6. Jan 3

    That time a US president's actions became a viral social-media topic on the internet, and he tried to get the platform to censor it.... In 1973, before it was even called the internet

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  7. Jan 3

    Has someone written something explaining what Tim Cook meant by "over 100 percent" in this passage? How's that work?

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  8. Jan 2

    One of Canada’s smarter federal policies is allowing foreign students to stay for up to three years after graduating — compared to 60 days in the USA. This, plus a general sense of safety, is vacuuming up highly skilled young people who’d otherwise be at Ivy League schools

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    30 Dec 2018

    Stock markets explained in 15 secs.

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  10. Jan 2

    (Technically 22 years ago -- the legislation itself was 1997 --but it wasn't til the end of the '90s that it really got going)

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  11. Jan 2

    (I document this in my book Maximum Canada: )

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  12. Jan 2

    Quebec introduced a universal childcare program 20 years ago. While hardly lavish, it produced the highest rate of female workforce participation in the world. It also raised Quebec's fertility rate. And it paid for itself, through added tax revenues created by working women.

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  14. Jan 2

    Now that it’s untethered by copyright, let’s enjoy the ominous foreboding of some hardcore Wallace Stevens

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    Jan 1

    On this new year's day, our thoughts at are with , his family and loved ones who should have been able to spend it together China should immediately release him.

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  16. Jan 1

    Oh, thank you for filling me in on the whereabouts of my uncle Husson Saunders, his tragic misadventures, and his considerable fortune

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  17. Jan 1

    An extraordinary inside account of the diplomatic response to the Theresa May government's fateful mistake: Forgetting, for well more than a year, that Ireland is Europe.

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    Dec 31

    History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. . . Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

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    31 Dec 2018

    Last book I've read in 2018 and 4th this year with "City" in the title. Excellent overview of explosive urban growth from .

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  20. Just a reminder of what the people with 6,800 warheads had to say

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  21. “While you’re celebrating with your family and friends, we’d like to remind you that we can and would end all life on earth. Love and kisses, Strategic Command”

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