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Step right up! Step right up!

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Sheldon Birnie
“Opinions are like assholes — everyone has one, and it stinks.” — American proverb The sickly sweet scent of rotting roses greets my nose each morning, these days, as I step into the Hyde Park that...
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Carbon credits and Joe 12-pack

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Steve Langston
Joseph is a habitual alcoholic. Each day he makes the short walk to the local beer vendor to purchase a dozen frosty beers. Because he is wise and has a distinguished palate, he chooses...
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Jets grounded

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Stephen Milner
The Jets are coming! The Jets are coming! Well, hold on there little Jimmy, not so fast. While there may indeed be a team moved to Canada — maybe even serious consideration of Winnipeg...
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How my life changed, over lunch

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Jillian Nichols
As a result of the International Centre for Students World Opportunities Week and Beyond our Borders Project’s efforts, on Oct. 28, I had the pleasure and honour of having lunch with Dr. James Orbinski,...
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Healthcare in the US, a private affair

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Peter Zystra-Moore
On Feb. 18, 1971 President Nixon announced, "I am proposing today a new national health strategy. The purpose of this program is simply this. I want every American to have the finest health care...
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Never give up

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Damian Purdy
Allow me to commence this “comment” with characteristic self-absorption. Perhaps this is self-evident, but I am a man of eminence, of success. Indeed, my appetite for achievement is surpassed only by my appetite for...
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“What’s a paragraph?”

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Jesse Beach
It was mid-September. I had just set off from my house that morning on foot, living only a couple of blocks away from my practicum school. I was dressed in my best teacher clothes,...

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