And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

[Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.