Occupation: Writer Birth: October 12, 1964
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disap….
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged fro….
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be tr….
Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep..
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hand….
With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the b….
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canad….
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the huma….