A great man and a real shame that he had to leave Canada to develop his talents.

Perhaps Mr Urry's life is a demonstration of the limits placed on Canadians before 1967 as so brilliantly shown in Doug Saunders' article on the main page of the Globe site (why can we not comment on it? Would it upset too many old school Canadian Conservatives that cling to the idea that Canada is somehow "British and Christian"?). Saunders' piece rates up there with his analysis of the situation in the Moroccan ghettos in Brussels and what Canada can learn from it, particularly in terms of housing affordability.