John Stall

As the Toyota Canada executive team appears before the all-party Commons committee today, I was struck by the admission by Transport Canada that the 100 or so reports it received about accelerator problems by Toyota owners did not seem out of line with the number of reports it received about other car brands.
My reaction is […]

Yes, I was moved to healthy, joyful tears several times throughout the Olympic games and it felt so good. I don’t know about you, but the well spring for tears was the depth and degree of national pride that became contagious. Even the Coke commercials about “who’s game it is” got to me.
I’m one of those who swore […]

“If you could read my mind, what a tale my thoughts would tell.”
I doubt Gordon Lightfoot ever imagined a technology like Twitter when he wrote those lyrics so long ago. But the social media site does allows anybody to publish their mind thoughts and have them read by the rest of the world in a […]

I did battle during interviews with Brian Mulroney a couple of times during the 80s and early 90s while he was PM over Nafta and Meech lake.  I use the word battle because that is how he approached every studio interview that questioned his policy and his politics.
Like some of his American counterparts, he characterized […]

No Adam, if your lover’s allegations and The Toronto Star’s version of them today are true and accurate, you may have just proven that you are still too young and despite your (hip?) little video suggesting otherwise, you may not yet  be ready for the big adult job.
Frankly, I’m not sure anymore how much people […]

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 […]