I tell the story of Jack and Donna Wright, who lived in their house in Kingston, Ontario with their 640 cats, the most in any house in North America. First published in the 1990s in various publications in Canada and the United States.
Read the full article →The story of Canada’s least glamorous criminal, the grease thief. But sludge from the dinner grill holds far more value than you might have expected.
Read the full article →The sleepy city of Cobourg, Ontario, sitting just east of the bulging monolith of concrete and glass that the world calls Toronto, is stirred by winds of change, or at least the prospect of such.
Read the full article →The printers of instant win tickets run the biggest game of all and get ahead by busting the tickets produced by competing printing companies.
Read the full article →The tank-like Ford LTD was a super-car that simply refused to die, leaving auto workers on overtime for years to meet customer demand.
Read the full article →When CBC built a fancy new broadcast center in Toronto, it turned the public broadcaster into a player in the real estate game. It didn’t turn out as expected.
Read the full article →Canada’s ambassador to Moscow, Robert Ford, did a remarkable job profiling the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev before his rise to power in the 1980s.
Read the full article →The remarkable and mysterious nature of one of Canada’s once largest conglomerates left bankers and governments twitching with fear in the early 1990s.
Read the full article →In the early 1990s Olympia & York shared with me inside financial data on the state of what was then one of the world’s great real estate empires.
Read the full article →A company promised to build a plastic engine in Ontario. But then doubts began to emerge and the shares plummeted.
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