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Rod McQueen

Rod McQueen

Freelance Contributing Columnist at Toronto Star Online

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  • English
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Opinion | Joe Clark’s famous typewriter — abandoned on the road to the prime minister’s office

A frustrated Joe Clark left his Royal typewriter behind when he stepped away from Robert Stanfield and into the political ring, writes Rod McQueen, who used it to write his first book.
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Rod McQueen: How a humble Hungarian refugee built a billion-dollar ...

Frank Hasenfratz grew a humble basement workshop near Guelph, Ont., into a global auto parts powerhouse.
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Opinion | CEO’s job at Canada’s largest bank is simple. Lend a buck...

Any bank CEO, such as Royal's John Cleghorn from 1995-2001, writes Rod McQueen, doesn’t possess the office so much as hold it in trust. Every Royal leader was part of
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Opinion | Small-minded minions and the sad sale of Canada’s histori...

Canada came of age when Vincent Massey became our first envoy to the U.S. in 1927, writes Rod McQueen, living at the beautiful Dupont Circle chancery. It was later sold
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Opinion | The editing giant who left his front-row seat at the ‘gre...

If Canadians better understand corporations, their own economic circumstances, and the nation’s budgetary nightmares, writes Rod McQueen, give full due to Alexander 'Sandy' Ross.
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Lessons in Canadian entrepreneurship from Blackberry, tech paranoia...

I knew Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's Research in Motion was in trouble, writes Rod McQueen who wrote a book on the company, when a lunch companion raved on about
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Opinion | The real ‘Succession’: the high-stakes game of grooming C...

In 1992, after 11 years as president of Toronto-Dominion Bank, Robin Korthals decided he’d had enough.
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'You’re either good, or you’re rich.' Sometimes, like investor Ira ...

The deals Ira Gluskin made as an investor will not be his main legacy, writes Rod McQueen. It will be the more than $100 million he and wife Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin
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‘Duke of Kent’ Darcy and bride Joyce were always arm-in-arm

To hear Darcy Mceough tell the story, writes Rod McQueen, Joyce swept him off his feet after a first date in 1964. They married the following year and had two
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Comeback kid Jack Cockwell who turned a $15M Bronfman inheritance i...

I had never made an interviewee cry before — or since — writes Rod McQueen. After making the Bronfman's billions, Jack Cockwell, is now one in his own right.
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Opinion | ‘I’m never going to be chairman of the Commerce.’ For for...

I met a lot of bankers in researching my book, writes Rod McQueen, and none of them talked like CIBC's Peter Cole. “I don’t care what you write — just