Former U.S. president Barack Obama told host Matt Galloway that he misses the camaraderie and the "mental exercise of figuring out hard policy problems," but not the pomp of the presidency. He adds that he might have enjoyed a third term if someone said “you can sit in your basement in your sweats” just doing the policy work. In his only Canadian interview, he also spoke about racism in the Donald Trump era and the task facing a Joe Biden presidency. Read more and listen to the full interview he

“If you're walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” - Barack Obama, born on this day in 1961. | Biography