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Don Gillmor

Don Gillmor’s book To the River  won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction.
The Bay store in downtown Winnipeg, at Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard, in 1973
Business / January/February 2023

Why Hudson’s Bay Company’s Future Is in Question

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 - by Don Gillmor

HBC saw its start during London’s bubonic plague and might see its end in the aftermath of COVID-19’s retail devastation

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Illustration by Michael Byers
July/August 2016

Stuck

July 20, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Traffic is ruining our lives—but we can be saved

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Photograph by Heather Elton
March 2016 / Memoir

A Poet Self-Destructs

February 19, 2016April 22, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

The tormented life of my friend Murdoch Burnett

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Photograph by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
December 2015 / Memoir

The Roughneck Diaries

November 25, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Remembering when the oil sands were young

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Photograph by Jaime Hogge
January/February 2012

The Invention of Waterloo

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Canada’s Technology Triangle has spawned more than 450 high-tech companies, including BlackBerry pioneer Research in Motion. But it didn’t just happen: an upstart university had the brains to embrace mathematics

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Photograph courtesy of Diamond+Schmitt Architects/Cicada Design
Arts & Culture / May 2010

Red Tape

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

For Diamond+Schmitt, winning an international competition to design a cultural centre in St. Petersburg was a blessing and a curse

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May 2009

That Old Flame

May 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

After sixty years, Harlequin Romance books are still enslaving readers. What’s their secret?

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July/August 2008 / Memoir

Shelter from the Storm

July 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Don Gillmor

Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss

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Books / June 2008

Review: Toronto Noir

June 12, 2008June 30, 2017 - by Don Gillmor

What seethes beneath T.O.’s cool politeness

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January/February 2008

The Events Leading Up to Sir Norman Foster

January 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Don Gillmor

A famous British architect, oil barons, an urban vision, and creeping liberalism all meet in Calgary’s downtown. What is the future for Cowtown?

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