Anyone living on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. would be hard-pressed not to notice the ubiquitous TD Bank branches, with their aqua-green signs and matching decor. All told, TD Bank has 1,100 bank branches […]
How did a young Jewish woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria in the late 1930s end up in New York and emerge as one of the most dynamic illustrators of comic books a few years […]
If you’re living in Canada, it’s probably no surprise to you that 2024 has been labeled the year of the “Media Apocalypse.” There’s been a dramatic collapse of revenue sustaining the mainstream media. The CBC, […]
Although much of the world’s population is sitting idle at home binge-watching Netflix, fraudsters are hard at work taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nowadays everyone finds their inboxes filled with “emergency” emails suggesting we […]
I spent my childhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, a jewel of a port city on Canada’s west coast. We lived in a middle class neighborhood overlooking Burrard Inlet, where ships from all over the world […]
As the SNC-Lavalin case was breaking this past winter, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) asked me do a television interview about the emerging scandal. At one point I was asked why I thought the government […]
The short answer is yes. But not very often. In the early 2000s, after the collapse of Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, the CEOs of these three companies all ended up in prison with heavy sentences. […]
We all recognize so-called street crime: it’s someone breaking and entering and robbing your home, or stealing your car or other possessions. It’s murder, physical and sexual assault, human trafficking, selling illegal narcotics. These sorts […]