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WHO I AM
- John Downing
- Toronto, Canada
- John has been an author, reporter, editor, blogger and columnist. He has appeared regularly on radio and TV. His field is politics but he writes about everything. A veteran of the Telegram and Sun newspapers, he has been active in many community organizations.
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SORTING THE GREATS FROM THE GOOFS It ended well but it almost got derailed at the start. Thank heavens for luck and senior editors tough... -
If our world hadn't been stampeded into stupid decisions where a few activists with a feeble grasp on real facts determine what is ...
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CHARLES TEMPLETON SAVED HIM FROM SCANDAL The warm stories about the passing of that legendary evangelist Billy Graham skip over that an ...
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Now that I am in my anecdotage, as my family remark rudely, my travels are limited by macular degeneration, diabetes, hearing aids, and a te...
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I had lived in 16 different houses, apartments, rooms, and rooming houses, and had at least 16 part-time jobs and two reporting ones, before...
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My visit to Toronto General Hospital, the marvellous anchor of the University Health Network, was going well. I felt almost comfortable. T...
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Donald Summerville was Toronto mayor for an urban twinkling. But generations are happy because of his response to a rookie reporter. Yet his...
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Climb aboard the magic carpet of nostalgia and fly eight decades in time back to the town near Owen Sound which grew like so many where mil...
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They knew how to work the phones. That was a theme in the flood of nostalgia after the death of Brian Mulroney, which was a nice repetition ...
