Category: Summer 2002

It’s a perfect night for hockey. Outside, the October air is biting, but it doesn’t compare to the freezing temperature inside the arena, where a couple of hundred fans await the start of tonight’s season opener. They quickly fill the cold blue plastic seats as the smell of barbequed hot dogs wafts through the stands.… Continue reading Sticking It to Women’s Sports

Cobi Ladner’s first inkling of the competition she was about to face came one night in the mid-1990s. Ladner, editor of Canadian House & Home, Canada’s preeminent decorating magazine, was attending the annualSaturday Night magazine Christmas party, where several hundred guests had gathered for an evening of schmoozing and free wine at the magazine’s Front Street offices… Continue reading Trouble on the Home Front

It’s a little before 10 a.m. on March 27, 2001, and more than 100 Maclean’s magazine employees are gathered in a reception room at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto. They’ve trooped up the sidewalk from company headquarters at 777 Bay Street for the long-awaited announcement: the unveiling of their new editor-in-chief. Excitement mingles with relief. Today… Continue reading A Tall Order

“Buy a paper, support the homeless,” bellows Hubert Serroul against the cold wind that probably accounts for the unusually small crowd outside Toronto’s St. Lawrence farmer’s market this Saturday morning. Hubert holds a copy of Toronto Street News in one gloved hand. In the other he holds a cigarette bummed off a friend. It’s almost noon and… Continue reading Small Papers, Big Issues

Q:After dating this woman for a couple of months, I began to suspect that she was a bed wetter. Is adult bed-wetting more common than one would imagine? Would it be morally shallow of me not to want to sleep with her again? A: Would it be morally shallow not to sleep with the woman again?… Continue reading Sex and the City Desk