John Stall

Again, as one who has reported from several disaster areas including a war zone, I am enormously impressed by Anderson Cooper’s (CNN) recent work and stamina in Haiti. Not only was he one of the first reporters into the horrible scene, but he stayed, lived and worked among the ruins, death and human suffering for […]

Even though our smartphones have become an accepted and common tool of life, receiving text messages and tweets from the rubble in Haiti took my breath away over the last week, while convincing me that they have morphed  from a nice-to-have into a must-have.
The one story in particular that dropped my jaw was the story […]

It’s going to be a pivotal week for the two front-running mayoral candidates George Smitherman and Rocco Rossi, who should learn by the end of the week which of them gets the support of the Ralph Lean fundraising machine.
Ralph is one of the most influential political player on Bay Street, or in the country for […]

I sensed John Tory was leaning towards staying out of politics on December 6, when those of us who work in various sectors of the business, gathered at Queen’s Park for the annual press gallery Christmas party.
He looked relaxed and happy with his life, telling me that he was enjoying the new radio gig, which […]

I was thinking today about how apprehensive we all were heading into the Christmas break last year after the markets collapsed in the fall. Those who had a hard time keeping the powder dry, spent the Christmas break taking deep breaths while trying not to look at the investment portfolios.
Many spent the Christmas break knowing that the […]

Can’t tell you how many people have raised their eyebrows as they approach me with the question “who the hell is Rocco Rossi”? And why is he running for mayor? It’s a legitimate question and query so I offer what I know about him.
As you may have read or heard at the time of his […]

What Liberal leader Micheal Ignatieff doesn’t know, despite his storied intellect, is what he doesn’t know. This week, what Ignatieff didn’t know about a Canadian journalist led to a response that conveyed political weakness, arrogance, desperation and naivete.
These may be some of the very attributes or characteristics that Toronto Star columnist Angelo Persichilli intimated in […]

We can only imagine how much money and creativity Nike has spent over the years getting the world to “Just do it” with a wide range of its products - from running shoes to golf clubs. It made a ton of sense while Tiger was “just doing it” on the golf course, but not so much anymore eh? Those hundreds […]

Well now that Peter Donollo is running Michael Ignatieff’s office, the idea of denouncing the HST could float to the top as an Opposition strategy that could galvanize public support. It worked for Jean Chretien during the election campaign in 1993 against Brian Mulroney, even if it worked against him once he got the majority and decided […]

My journey to Berlin in November of ‘89 continued the day after the Wall came down, when I decided to test the new open border structure by crossing into the East through Checkpoint Charlie.
Checkpoint Charlie is the infamous point of division between the Soviet and American sectors of Berlin and was (before the Wall went […]