On holiday, finally getting a chance to read Jean Chrétien's My Years as Prime Minister.

After working on Bay Street, covering technology companies for nearly a decade, I moved to Ottawa to try my hand at political reporting in the winter of 2005, just as Paul Martin's tenure as PM was winding down. As a result, I missed the Chrétien years and, as I start to read his memoirs of his time in power, I'm keen to see what he has to say, particularly in light of what I know about the current incumbent and how he conducts himself in office..   more »

Liesl, an old friend who was a great director back in the days when I thought I'd be an actor, has a reading in Toronto next week of her new play.... Canary By Liesl Lafferty with Tasha Lawrence and Kathryn Haggis Canary is a comedy about Lily, a bright young woman who suffers from a debilitating aversion to artificial light. Her journey into the toxic world of environmental illness brings her to radical resolutions and raises the question, ‘Are you next?’