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William B. Davis, who played Cigarette Smoking Man, doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories. But most of his fans do

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Political Insider

At Massey College, Michael Ignatieff teaches students about the hard realities of Parliament Hill

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Online Media Maven

Rachel Sklar is a champion for women in the media and tech fields – and she makes a lot of people’s “lists”

TV's Troubled Surgeon - Photo of Caterina Scorsone by Raphael Mazzucco

TV’s Troubled Surgeon

Caterina Scorsone explores mental health issues while playing Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the show Private Practice

Photo Courtesy of Murtz Jaffer

Even Better Than the Real Thing?

What’s the ongoing appeal of reality TV? “It’s an adrenaline high-speed version of real life,” says Murtz Jaffer

Photo by James Petranik

Steve Petranik and Ann Auman

A Varsity romance is still going strong after more than 30 years

Photo by ACBL and Ron Tacchi

60 Seconds With Fred Gitelman

Canada’s bridge champion is trying to save the game from falling off a demographic cliff

Photo Courtesy of Stephen Gardiner

60 Seconds With Cass Enright

The founder of the Golden Tap Awards is hopped up on Ontario’s specialty breweries

Photo by Daniel Ehrenworth

A Month in Medicine

Mentorship offers high schoolers a close-up look at a career in health

60 Seconds With Autumn Haag

What information studies grad won a spot on Jeopardy, got her Daily Double right and found out something surprising while on set?

60 Seconds With Heather Moyse

Gold medalist Heather Moyse talks to Lisa Bryn Rundle about her Olympic journey

Peter Silverman receives the Order of Ontario from Lt.-Gov. David Onley in 2009

60 Seconds With Peter Silverman

The former host of Silverman Helps talks about the perils of pursuing unscrupulous businesspeople

(Courtesy of of CBC)

60 Seconds with Robert Herjavec

Advice from the Dragon’s Den judge: don’t be cutthroat, but don’t be a pushover, either.

(Design by PAD Inc./Samer Hoot)

Architecture’s New Frontier

U of T architecture grads submit designs for Inner Mongolian cultural district

Photo by Adam Smith

60 Seconds with Hal Niedzviecki

“The more we entertain ourselves by looking at other people’s lives, the less we connect to them as human beings”

Author: Lisa Bryn Rundle