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Humourist. Author. Educator. Commuter.

Andrew Clark is an award-winning author and humourist. He writes the weekly Road Sage column for the Globe and Mail. He is the director of the Humber College Comedy program in Toronto.

He has won a gold award and been nominated several times for his writing at the National Magazine Awards, and was nominated for a Governor-General’s Award for Literary Non-Fiction for his most recent book, A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle. In the 1990s, he became Canada’s first fulltime comedy critic and his first book Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy remains the standard for writing critically about comedy. As a freelance journalist, he has written for publications including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Maclean’s and The New York Times Magazine.

He commutes happily around Toronto, gaining comic insights for this Road Sage column in a Dodge Grand Caravan (the “anti-Porsche”).

October 20, 2025
LRT is a Four-Letter Word

Historica Canada should consider producing a Canadian Heritage Minute celebrating Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which began construction in 2011 and has yet to open. Past Heritage Minutes have included the Battle of Queenston Heights, the Underground Railroad and Sir Sandford Fleming, who engineered four…

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May 2, 2025
From The New York Times: I’m Not a ‘Gatsby’ Scholar. I’m a ‘Gatsby’ Weirdo.

“The Great Gatsby” turned 100 this week. Probably, like me, you first read it in high school. My true engagement with the novel, though, began five years ago, when I was in my 50s and a writer and college teacher, and I started listening…

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April 8, 2025
San Francisco’s low-income discount on speeding fines is not justice

Do you like speeding but are in a low-income bracket? San Francisco has got your back. California residents who earn $30,120 or less annually for a single-person household can cut their fines in half, according to Carscoops. The delinquent discount is part of the city’s…

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