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Step right up! Step right up!
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“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...
Carbon credits and Joe 12-pack
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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...
Jets grounded
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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...
How my life changed, over lunch
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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,...
Healthcare in the US, a private affair
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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...
Never give up
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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...
“What’s a paragraph?”
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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,...
