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As someone who lives within a kilometer of Highway Seven, I can write this with equanimity, with friends and fond memories on both sides of the line. And to those readers from “away”, let me explain that Highway Seven runs from Ottawa to Toronto, hugging the Canadian Shield mostly along the way, bifurcating Eastern Ontario…

It was 1939, just before war broke out in Europe. New York was hosting the World’s Fair, and the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wanted to impress. What better than a non-stop flight from Moscow to New York? Nothing of the sort had ever happened. So it was on April 28, 1939 pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki and…

“Sow the wind,” says the Good Book, “and reap the whirlwind.” For four years, Donald Trump lied, cheated, sucked up to tyrants, played golf, lied some more, cheated some more, deconstructed environmental and social protections, played more golf, watched TV, incited violence, sucked up to more tyrants, and just generally acted as one would expect…

Back in the day when I was still doing some matrimonial trials, I had a case which should have lasted, at most, one-day. In fact, it should never have gone to trial at all, it was so eminently settleable. The kids in this farm family were nearly grown up and custody and access were not…

All summer long we puzzled over the strange bird-call coming from somewhere around our back deck, or possibly the adjoining garden or shrubs. Kind of a raspy note, much like the sound of a rusty door hinge. Just couldn’t put a finger on it, and even Merlin the magic bird-song-identifier app couldn’t tell us what…

Early in my legal career I represented a young rascal named Jean-Guy (not his actual name, but close enough). He was eighteen or nineteen, tall and skinny, and what you might call a “space cadet”. You’ll soon see what I mean. Jean-Guy and some friends had planned the ultimate heist. They were going to get…