Rick Salutin was recovering at home after bypass surgery in 1999. The veteran dissident had missed his weekly Globe and Mail column, and he was bound to miss some more. That was until he read a column by Marcus Gee, one of the Globe‘s neoconservative voices, calling communism a “crackpot theory.” In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of… Continue reading The Dissident
Out of Print
Martin Levin, carrying an armload of books in padded envelopes, edges through a throttle of desks on the second floor of The Globe and Mail building. The new arrivals will join the dozen stacks of books that reach from the carpet to the underside of his desk. More books on top of a filing cabinet rise past… Continue reading Out of Print
The X-ed Files
It could be any reporters desk. Cluttered and cramped, strewn with tools of the trade-tapes and clippings, notes and papers piled in tumbling stacks near the computer or in leaning towers on the floor. Amid the organized chaos sits a sheaf of paper a foot high-documents obtained under the Access to Information Act, easily the… Continue reading The X-ed Files
….Sinking
“From my breakfast table in the Hotel Hesselet’s dining room, I watch a lone canoeist glide across the still Baltic Sea just steps away. A seagull, perched on the end of the swimming pier, also observes his progress. I marvel at the serenity of the scene as mist slowly lifts off the water. The breakfast… Continue reading ….Sinking
Hall of Famer
The picture was taken with a box Brownie on the infield at Yankee Stadium just before the first game of the 1941 World Series. That’s Joe DiMaggio in his home whites, staring inward as DiMaggio so often did. The young man beside him is Billy Frayne, 23, all the way from Winnipeg, and he’s in… Continue reading Hall of Famer
