The Boy has been WFW – Working from Whistler since October 2020. At that time, he loaded up his new car with his office gear and sports gear and convinced his sister to ride shotgun with him across the country. Not sure he is really ever going to come “Back East” other than for a…

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The colour theme chosen by my mother (it was certainly not me choosing) for my Bar Mitzvah in 1976 was orange. That was probably no surprise considering it was the mid 70s and at the time my hair would have  matched well with the colour theme. It accented the rust coloured three piece suit that…

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I waddle. I don’t jog and I certainly don’t run. For what I do is way too slow to be called running or jogging. And if you doubt me, just look at my Strava times.  That said, I have waddled pretty much my whole life. My first memory of really how slow I am dates…

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I like a nice promenade. City planners take note – If you want to design a promenade, look no further than the 200 year old Promenade des Anglais in Nice. It is really one of my “ happy places”. It has all that a promenade and public space should be. It has a fantastic view of…

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Janny has always said to me when looking at the New World and the Old World, “You cannot compare what is not comparable.” This past March 20 (seven days after I left the office for the last time), the author Yuval Noah Harari said the following in an op-ed piece in the Financial Times: Humankind…

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Some people are members of multiple golf courses and county clubs. Others are members of multiple synagogues. Me, I am a member of multiple cycling clubs, and by extension, closets full of club kit. I am a one of the charter members of the Bartali Cycling Club in Toronto and a pretty new member of…

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