Married 50 years to the same patient woman; two wonderful daughters and two much loved grandchildren. Winner of the 2009 National Business Book Award for Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite. My 2020 book, Unicorn in the Woods, How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game was one of the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 books that year. A writer and editor for Canadian daily newspapers for four decades. Now retired from the stress of daily deadlines, I have written nine books of Canadian business stories, and 10 small volumes of local history about the region of Eastern Ontario where I grew up.