Two weeks go by in a flash, and I figure it’ll take me a week to catch up. The flash was a bolt of lightning in the tornado that is Toronto in June. This city, unfairly now, can have a reputation for being a bankers’ town that sees all in terms of money and an [...]

Went up to Don Mills a couple of nights ago to hear Eric Siblin, an old Westmount High School classmate, read from his book, The Cello Suites, at the new McNally Robinson bookstore. Don Mills, named for the mills that used to exist along the Don River, which feeds into Lake Ontario, was one of [...]

Had lunch with Anosh Irani on the weekend, the Vancouver-based playwright and “Canada Reads” alumnus in town for a reading of a new work-in-progress, My Granny the Goldfish. Useless fact: aside from his prodigious talent, Irani is indisputably the best-looking author in the Canadian panoply.

Back in Canada after a week in England, I am struck by just how good our newspapers are. This view goes against the current orthodoxy. I’m meant to be wowed by the British papers.

On the weekend, after a walk in the ravine behind the Evergreen building at the Don Valley Brick Works (there is a farmer’s market here, come May, on Saturday mornings, and Margaret Atwood set a part of her novel, The Edible Woman, here), my friend Albert Schultz, the artistic director of the Soulpepper Theatre Company [...]

Noah Richler opens his Rover account with an appropriate comparison between his adopted city of Toronto and Montreal, the city where he grew up. Noah’s column will make a regular appearance on Rover and we’re proud to call him one of our own. No matter where he happens to reside. So check out his first [...]