“It felt like the message in Ontario was that by virtue of being nurses, this is the sort of treatment we signed up for.”
Tag Archives: memoir
My father was a criminal. Here’s how I found out.
My dad worked as a furniture salesman and drove a Rolls-Royce. It was only after his death that I learned about his secret past.
Why Wes Hall is betting on Black entrepreneurs
On Dragons’ Den, he’s known as “The Fixer.” That nickname holds true in real life, too.
Why Moshe Safdie wants Canada to rebuild its sense of adventure
“The public often thinks a building can be functional but ugly as hell. To me, that’s impossible.”
My escape from Ukraine to Canada
My family fled Kyiv on March 1. We travelled to four countries in five days and then spread out across three continents. Now I’m in Canada, hoping to one day see Ukraine again.
How the most connected man in Toronto came back from death
Bob Ramsay’s memoir explains how he survived a brush with death–for love
How Putin’s absurd, tacky Russia isn’t so different from Trump’s America
Former GQ Russia editor Michael Idov says the nations share magical thinking and addiction to simplistic narratives
Lab Girl succeeds as a non-fiction novel
Hope Jahren pens a riveting memoir and an ode to plants
An esteemed author takes a crack at a new character: himself
Book review: A memoir from one of Canada’s greatest writers, Richard B. Wright
Women like me
‘What would I report? That I went home with a man I barely knew and then, halfway through, he got crazy?’