Columnist and feature writer for the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. theglobeandmail.com/authors/…

Joined March 2009
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My latest from the Globe… Toronto’s gateway roads are an embarrassment theglobeandmail.com/canada/t…
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Alan Riding, a British lawyer who escaped trusts and torts to become a brilliant long-time foreign correspondent for the @nytimes, covering Latin America and Europe, has died at 82. He was an extraordinary journalist, author and colleague. RIP, Alan. nytimes.com/2026/06/06/busin…
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Powerful editorial in Canada's @globeandmail on the failure to speak plain about antisemitism: "The price of freedom of conscience and safety for Jews ... is set by their enemies." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Canadiens’ Lane Hutson leads and learns in playoff run theglobeandmail.com/sports/h…
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Relentless Hurricanes beat Canadiens in overtime to tie up Eastern Conference final theglobeandmail.com/sports/h…
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Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works. Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this." That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door. Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply. Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
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My latest, on the continuing fiasco at the CPP investment fund, which has now spent more than $50 billion over twenty years to lose about $100 billion relative to what it might have earned, for an equal amount of risk, if it had just bought the relevant indexes — or flung darts at the stock listings. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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My latest from the Globe… Let’s not surrender to the wall of noise theglobeandmail.com/canada/t…
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To make sense of the uncertain moment we find ourselves in, The Globe's foreign correspondents and journalists curated a series of nine moments, places and objects that capture a world turned upside down. tgam.ca/world-in-transition
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The Globe and Mail increased its newsroom by more than 10% in 2025 . . . Editor-in-chief David Walmsley said it now numbers 260, of whom 30 were added last year. “It was one of the largest hiring years we’ve ever had.” #cdnmedia #newspapers pressgazette.co.uk/north-ame…
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Some news: I’m moving to Toronto this summer to become The New York Times first Canada investigative correspondent! Incredibly excited to be part of our expansion in Canada, led by the indefatigable @MatinaStevis . DMs open for all tips (stories or Canada advice) and coffees 🇨🇦
🚨 More @nytimes Canada news. The irrepressible investigative reporter @jane__bradley is joining our team! In the words of our editor Phil Pan: the move “signals our commitment to aggressive, fair and deeply reported coverage of Canada, home to our largest international audience”
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The besuited dancer of Budapest, herald of new Hungary
🇭🇺 No, this is not AI, this is the newly inaugurated government of Hungary. The first thing they did was raise the EU flag over the Hungarian Parliament.
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Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
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