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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

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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Joe Fiorito

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…

A Stoppage of the Light

Recollections of a keen observer’s summer in a cemetery March 2009
Thomas Lynch divided by Studs Terkel times Larry, Moe and Curly equals Charles Wilkins; or you had better be careful when you give a kid a summer job, because he might take notes. I will, as usual, explain. No one is more familiar with the rituals and cadences of modern funerary rites than the American…