Portrait of a CTV hero as a young man

Big shout-out to CTV’s Evan Solomon for doing such an outstanding job on the streets of Ottawa, covering the illegal occupation. The dazed and confused have been shoving him, spitting at him, calling him a Nazi. All because he’s getting right down into the front lines to show us what’s happening. Seeing him in action,…

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Portrait of Evan Solomon as a thirty-one-year-old novelist

(Big shout-out to Linda Richards at January Magazine. She went into her files and turned up an interview she did back in the day with Evan Solomon. Made me think, gee, in 1999, I spun a yarn myself when I was working as a literary journalist and Solomon published a novel called Crossing the Distance.…

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