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How Do You Remember What it is Like to Die? – Remembrance Day

  Note – this was originally written on November 9, 1971 and published in the Gateway Newspaper and on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio network worldwide. I wrote this before I had any first hand knowledge of war. Now I have too much, but I am pleased with my younger more innocent friend for getting [...]

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Turning the Camera on Yousuf Karsh

I was recently asked about the day that I photographed one of the 20th century’s preeminent portrait photographers. Yousuf Karsh burst into global celebrity when in 1941 he took this photograph of then Prime Minister Winston Churchill. For the next several decades the world’s mighty and famous clamored for his talents. His waiting list for [...]

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Eyes Clenched Shut — A Tale of Driving in Four World Cities

I cannot remember the last time in Calgary that I used my car horn. I am not even sure that it works. I do know that if I did use the horn here it would be taken as a deadly insult worthy of gestures and incoherent rage. That is in hornless Calgary. Elsewhere, things are [...]

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