I doubt that Mark Carney meant to ace Instagram’s viral 2016 meme on Canada’s behalf when he recently delivered what was blandly undersold as a “special address” to the World Economic Forum in Davos. But almost a decade to the day that the New York Times asked the oddly punctuated, somewhat patronizing quasi-question – “With…

As award season rounds the calendar once again, Hollywood A-Listers in their best designer duds are strutting down the red carpet with the sexiest accessory of all: a super-hot, super-inappropriately-aged other half dangling proudly on their arm. In a town/time where the 17-year-gap between George and Amal feels banal, only the weirdest and wackiest May-December…

ZOOM IN With money too tight to mention – Peter Muggeridge’s analysis of November’s federal budget ("Mark Carney’s Economic Reset Falls Flat") lays out the macro issues – perhaps it’s time to re-up the old adage: health is wealth. Of course, as many of us experiencing the peaks and valleys of our longevity journeys know,…

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