It was pleasure enough to share a poutine with artist and performer James Bewley during his recent visit to Montreal, but I also had the opportunity to chat with his alter-ego, Dale Seever, about Tim Horton’s, Celine Dion, and my own solo show, Piecework: When We Were French. Dale is a born entertainer, an unsinkable…

As I’ve begun to prepare for the upcoming fall and winter performances of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, I’ve been thinking a lot about storytelling — not the work of novelists or even old-fashioned tellers of tales, but the capacity of any of us to share the stories we’ve lived. Telling is…

I’m currently in training for The Ride to Conquer Cancer, a 250km bike tour to raise funds to support cancer research, treatment, and care at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital. When cold or rainy weather keep me from riding outdoors, I train on a stationary bike at the gym. The human equivalent of a hamster wheel,…

At the beginning of each new year, I eagerly anticipate an updated post from the World Question Center, a somewhat mysterious association of “scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world.” Each year, a new question is posed to a few dozen of the world’s biggest brains. In the past their answers have left me…