Margaret Cooper was at a car showroom in Hamilton, Ont., in the early 1950s when her husband, Craig, struck up a conversation with a young German immigrant. He mentioned that his father had been the captain of a U-boat during the Second World War. Although Mrs. Cooper knew the captain’s name, the submarine he was […]
Imagine you're 23 years old, the low man on the newsroom totem pole, and they are about to send the police reporter, the oldest guy in the room, to cover
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If I had even 10% of the answers for what makes the stock market tick I could be “sunnin’ meself in the Bahamas”, to pluck a line from Beyond the Fringe. People are mystified that the stock market is on wheels, except for last Thursday, at a time when the world economy is in the […]
Since the middle of March $180 in cash passed through my fingers. Sure, I am spending less, but the reason is I hardly do anything face-to-face. A pizza, a sushi dinner, with the cash left on the bench, both of us wearing a mask. Everything else is done using my two credit cards, my debit […]
