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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Joe Fiorito

Joe Fiorito is a city columnist with the Toronto Star, and the author of the memoir The Closer We Are to Dying (McClelland and Stewart, 1999). 

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Racetrack Man

A son tells the story of his father's checkered career September 2014
The last time anyone was certain about the character of Toronto was in the 1940s and the ’50s, when the city was shut up tight on Sundays and the rest of the week was just as prim. In recent years, Toronto has been in flux. We have traded our staid WASP stance for a glorious, riotous international…