Over the last thirty years, I don't think I have ever visited Ottawa and not taken a stroll around the buildings for a gawk. If you find yourself in … - Rick Mercer

The Hill has always been one of my all-time favourite places. Not because of the people who sit in Parliament. Those I can take or leave. My affinity for the place is all about the bricks and the mortar - not the pricks and the mortals.

A few years back I wrote a memoir.
It was a hell of a story - a gripping tale of how a young man overcame a privileged middle-class upbringing, only to become a national treasure by telling Americans that Canada was going to legalize insulin.

"I once said to her on the phone, "Jann, this group of kids in Newfoundland have won a spot at a rock camp showcase in Madrid. They are fundraising. They need to raise ten thousand more dollars if they are going to make the trip."
Before I could finish talking, she said, "Okay, I'll give them five grand, you do the same, and it's done, easy."
I answered, "I was going to suggest we sign a picture for them for their auction."
Thanks to Jann, they made the trip. She changed the lives of a group of teenage rock and rollers that she didn't know."