Y2K: The strange, true history of how Canada prepared for an apocalypse that never happened, but changed us all

“On Dec. 31, 1999, Canadian leaders were preparing for the possibility that civilization would break down. The fear that electricity, phone lines and the financial industry could freeze up at the stroke of midnight because of a simple coding glitch in the world’s computers that had come to be known as Y2K. Michael Guerriere, who ran one of Toronto’s most important hospitals, prepared like a doctor: He went to bed early.”

Eric Andrew-Gee – The Globe and Mail – December 2019

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A faded mosaic

“For a growing number of young Indian men, Thunder Bay really is home – as awkward and imperfect a home as the cricket field, but home nonetheless. The city’s foreign student population has spiked in the past decade from fewer than 200 to about 2,500, roughly half of them from India.”

Eric Andrew-Gee – The Globe and Mail – July 2019

The making of Joseph Boyden

“All the while, rumours had percolated within the Indigenous intelligentsia about the handsome, light-skinned media darling who told folkloric-sounding stories about his background and filled up so many column inches and so much airtime. Who was he, they wondered – and just as important, who did he think he was? Boyden’s sworn affidavit in response to Wayne Izumi’s lawsuit seems at first glance to provide the roadmap toward an answer. It contains something unfamiliar in Boyden’s litany of autobiographical writing: a specific claim of belonging to an Indigenous community, expressed in formal, legalistic terms. ‘I am Metis,’ he attests. ‘A true copy of my status card is attached.'”

Eric Andrew-Gee – The Globe and Mail – August 2017