I picked up the Globe this morning to find an obituary of former Barrick Gold CEO Greg Wilkins, who died after a lengthy battle with cancer. I only met Wilkins once — playing golf with him for my Going for the Green column in the National...
Category - Going for the Green Book
The second year I wrote my Going for the Green column for the National Post I had the good fortune of playing a round of golf with Jack Poole, the force behind BC’s 2010 Winter Games bid. Poole was a lot of fun — interesting, humble...
Okay, nothing in life is truly free, so it won’t be the case here either. However, I’m not going to ask a lot of my readers. The paper back of my book, Going for the Green: On the Links with Canada’s Business and Political...
Canoe.ca has a fine story about my Going for the Green book courtesy of the Canadian Press. Here’s a taste: TORONTO – In a 1922 short story titled “Ordeal by Golf,” British humorist P.G. Wodehouse aptly illustrated one...
I spent a gloriously sunny Monday on the fairways of Glencairn Golf Club near Milton playing a scramble to benefit Covenant House. The fundraiser was hosted by Morguard, a real estate company run by none other than Rai Sahi, the owner of...
An hour-long interview I did a month ago with Brad Brooks in Vancouver is now posted online. The interview was specifically about my book, Going for the Green: On the Links with Canada’s Business and Political Elite, and Brad made the...
Jeffrey Reed, who runs Londonontariogolf.com, has a nice plug for my Going for the Green book up on his site. Here’s a taste: One of the things I admire about colleague Robert Thompson is his ability to ask the tough question. True, he...
Andy Holloway at Canadian Business magazine has a quick review of my latest book, “Going for the Green: On the Links with Canada’s Business and Political Elite.” Holloway writes: The concept is pretty simple, and not...
I’m on CKNW (980 AM) in Vancouver tonight on the Brad Brooks show at 11 pm Eastern, 8 pm Pacific. Should be kind of fun, since I’m on for an hour talking about my book, Going for the Green: On the Links with Canada’s Business...