Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson has been with The Slovak Spectator since 1997. He was appointed editor-in-chief in 1998, and publisher in 2001. After taking a leave from the paper from 2002 to 2004, he rejoined it as publisher and as editor of the SPEX magazine. In March 2007 he left the Spectator to lead an investigative program at the SME daily paper. He continues to cooperate with the Spectator. He holds a master’s degree in history from Queen’s University in Canada, and has worked for the Whig Standard and National Post dailies in that country.


List of author's articles

Though this article was originally written 21 years ago, has much changed?
By dint of huge effort, I managed to make up for my bad behaviour - with everyone but the ball organiser, that is.
Mobster names don't always fit.
Slovak Matters: What's in a (sur)name?
Toilets, alcohol, and their relation.
A discussion on prefixes takes a journey from mistakes through to toilets and alcohol - because they are related of course.
The Slovak onomatopoeia for clinking glasses.
Every language has its own particular words that have a special meaning no other language has - here are the top 10 in Slovak.
Friends drinking a kapurková shot.
The last column was dedicated to saying hello; now we go over the last word, whether saying goodbye or taking the customary last shot.
Tom Nicholson
Slovak Matters is a column dedicated to learning Slovak - here we start with greetings and everything you need to know to say "good day".
After his time with the Spectator, Tom Nicholson went on to write for the Trend weekly and the Sme daily and became one of Slovakia's most respected investigative reporters before he returned to Canada in 2018.
As it turns out, liberal democracy is not the highest form of political evolution, in Slovakia as elsewhere, writes Tom Nicholson.
Mikuláš Dzurinda
Conflict solution is a skill that can be applied to both personal and civilizational problems.
Tom Waits
We may share poverty, but never the songs that make us shiver.
Robert Kaliňák, pictured in 2019
How we think of each other is the greatest difference between Slovakia and Canada.
Vancouver Island
A Slovak in the New World, an outdoorsman with scars to prove it, it was his first love that still made him weep.
2012 Gorilla protests
Even though it won’t lead to charges, new evidence will make political choices starker.
Returning from exile is a fine thing, but no one talks about how exhausting it is.
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Salmon were once a hundred times more populous on Canada’s Western coast.
The Health Ministry has announced grants to combat the shortage of medical workers.
There was something in the vet’s bedside manner that evoked in me a longing for the doctor I longed for.
Thanks to legalisation, the price of illegally-grown marijuana has tumbled, and my friends had lost their incomes.
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There is still diversity in the folly on display on Facebook, even among ‘friends’ who aren’t overtly racist, crude or stupid.
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Exaggerated obligingness is one aspect of life here.
A wildfire burns near the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation in Fort Fraser, British Columbia, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018.
That is what these forest fires felt like.
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