The War on Drugs has been a failure. It has not succeeded in its main goal: to end the drug trade. Rather, it has created an illicit market with huge social and economic costs to society: unjust incarceration, an untaxed industry run by thugs, tainted substances, and exploited children. But there are alternatives. My latest book, Off The Street: Legalizing Drugs (Dundurn), explores… View Post
When healthcare professionals and their patients think of quality care, it’s likely that storing and charting patient information are among the last things on their minds. At first glance, it’s administrivia of the most basic kind. And while this formal documentation is integral to any healthcare practice, it is also laborious, time-consuming and often the invisible and under-appreciated efforts… View Post
Bright Lights The heart breaking nearly simultaneous deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds marked a poetic, but sad end. They were “married” to each other in a sense, each single after multiple marriage fails, connected, intimate next door neighbours for decades. Spend a warm two hours with them in the Fisher Stevens documentary Bright Lights debuting on… View Post
MOSTLY SUNNY opens January 13 Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Halifax! Available in Canada January 10, exclusively on iTunes and simultaneously in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Australia, Brazil and Latin America. Sunny Leone’s is the story of single- minded personal reinvention in two international arenas and it’s a doozy. Raised in a traditional conservative Sikh… View Post
Travel can be fantastic, rewarding, mind opening and good for the soul. It can also be frustrating, exhausting and absolutely soul sucking. The best way to improve the travel experience for all of us is for all of us to resolve never to do the following things when we’re traveling, and hope that we pass the message along to our… View Post
Fences, directed by and starring Denzel Washington and based on August Wilson’s landmark play, this is a nearly three hours showcase of the highest calibre of acting. Washington and Viola Davis who plays his wife give sustained master classes in the art, within a claustrophobic domestic drama about a Baltimore garbage man and his family. The overbearing patriarch says he’s… View Post