Dr. Keshavjee and his team’s transplantation technique for donor lungs has since been adopted by other leading specialists for heart and liver transplantations. The average person takes 16 breaths per minute, 960 breaths per hour and 23,040 breaths per day. It’s the job of Dr. Shaf Keshavjee — one of the world’s leading thoracic and …
Dr. Barry Rubin Medical Director, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Lying on the operating room table is a 96-year-old man — wide awake, as it happens — whose aneurysm is being fixed by Dr. Barry Rubin. The next day, out of the hospital and like nothing happened, the patient sends a photo of himself practising his …
In an otherwise ordinary downtown Toronto office tower, the Hal Jackman Foundation’s 10th-floor University Avenue suite reaches a level of unlikely wonderment. A museum-like foyer where Persian rugs kiss chevron floors and landscape masterpieces coat the walls is just a prelude to the erstwhile lieutenant-governor of Ontario’s penchant for the arts. The former chairman of …
Q: This is the 10-year anniversary of your book The Rise of the Creative Class, which you’re commemorating with the release of The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited. What will readers find in this reworked edition that differs from your past texts? The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited brings all the statistics from …
As Dee Dee Hannah recalls her childhood, it’s easy to understand how she became both an architect and an interior designer. “I loved math and science and I loved fashion. I had this dichotomy in terms of interests, but also that’s sort of the way my mind works: very linear, logical thinker. But then I …
