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Positively Shady

The glamorous activism of M.A.C Cosmetics

Muslim Pride

A timely LGBTQ memoir

Minor Hockey as Big Business

The disturbing shift from kids’ game to pricey investment

John Sewell

John Sewell has been a writer an activist in Toronto for the past 40 years, including one term as mayor of Toronto.

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John Sewell

Catching Ottawa’s Attention

There’s how-to pragmatism, and then there’s moral leadership March 2008
Successfully influencing the political process seems like such an unlikely event that those who accomplish it often consider writing about their work before fading into the background. The forms vary from a short essay to a longer story about what happened, to an explanation of how the political system itself can permit outsiders to make…