Q:  Can you tell me when you had your first 
experience with McLuhan, and what started you on 
a life-long exploration of McLuhan and his ideas?

A:  I first laid eyes on McLuhan in the fall of 1968, 
and I was an undergraduate then at St. Michael’s 
College in the University of Toronto. McLuhan had 
just come back from a year in New York where he 
was teaching at Fordham University, and it was 
really the only year that he spent away form the 
University of Toronto, basically from the time he 
began there as a teacher in 1946 to his stroke in 
1979. That was really his home base for the better 
part of his career. It was really the height of his