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over 1 year ago
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Brilliant TV show Black Mirror is about escape — but almost no one manages it

The theme of the TV series “Black Mirror” is this: It doesn’t do to awaken longings that cannot be fulfilled. And yet...

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over 1 year ago
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The angst of baby boy billionaires means we all suffer

I am unable to decide which faux-wrestler, Zuck or Musk, has damaged my life more, Zuck, who killed journalism, or Mu...

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over 1 year ago
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Charlotte Gill creates a masterpiece with memoir on what it’s like to be biracial in Canada

Charlotte Gill digs hard into generations and shades of skin, into the deep drag of personality amid hostile settings...

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over 1 year ago
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Waterloo University attack the same horrific scene we’ve seen before

Police called it a hate crime. But hate of what? Women? Female profs? Humanities courses? “Gender” is a fuzzy target ...

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over 1 year ago
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Russians have been trained that it’s their duty to die in vain

Journalist Peter Pomerantsev believes Russians have a death drive in their soul, not the drive for life that is said ...

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over 1 year ago
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Olivia Chow’s election could prove transformative for Toronto

Chow deserves praise for running a campaign of hope but the truth is she is still hugely unpopular among some voters ...

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over 1 year ago
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How I imagine a new day will dawn under Olivia Chow’s Toronto

It will feel as if Toronto is in an elevator and we are suddenly being lifted to the top floor.

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over 1 year ago
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If you love Toronto as I do, then cast your vote for mayor

With the challenges we face, you will need a mayor who’s in your corner. With more than 100 candidates, vote for anyo...

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over 1 year ago
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The Titanic submersible’s story has been written before

Rich and foolish grown-ups paid huge money to sink deep into the Atlantic on a macabre mission to view the tomb of pa...

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over 1 year ago
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It’s crucial to get the vote out in Monday’s mayoral election

Given the prominent role local governments have in our daily lives, voter engagement should be highest for municipal ...

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over 1 year ago
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Gender-neutral school washrooms only serve to humiliate students

All the Toronto public school board, the trustees and the school achieved was to make a happy bunch of young students...

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over 1 year ago
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Olivia Chow’s mayoral campaign enjoys the perfect storm

Chow is the early front-runner but unlike 2014, the former city councillor and NDP MP has five key factors working in...

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over 1 year ago
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Incel’s murder designation as terrorism more proof it’s a grim time for women’s rights

Misogyny is out in the world, ballooning to the bursting point in recent decades in a worldwide attack on women’s rig...

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over 1 year ago
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Every nation has its human badge of failure. Canada has lassitude

Everyone who smells fire today had a hand in our country’s joint lack of will to deal with the heating of the climate...

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over 1 year ago
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How Ana Bailão can catch Olivia Chow in Toronto mayoral race

Bailão appears to have the most room to grow because she has key advantages that position her best to break away from...

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over 1 year ago
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Optimism in transferring Paul Bernardo is galling

It puzzles me that intelligent, heartfelt left-wing people often fail to understand evil. They don’t concede it exist...

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over 1 year ago
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Are Canadians becoming more MAGA American?

Americans are entitled to live as they wish, but in some ways Canadians are picking up their habits. I worry that the...

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over 1 year ago
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Olivia Chow has the courage to admit Toronto needs to hike taxes

Toronto knows Olivia Chow well and her reputation has been burnished with time. This may be why she spoke out on taxe...

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over 1 year ago
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I don’t believe Danielle Smith wants Canada (+Alberta)

Alberta’s premier buys into a myth that the West, as a cowboy hat declares, is special. It isn’t. Nobody is now.

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over 1 year ago
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Like a sidewalk weed you, too, fine reader, will not yield

You should dig into the earth this summer, if only for a brief respite for your soul. It might be container pots on y...

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over 1 year ago
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Here’s how to fix Toronto’s mayoral election nightmare

Toronto can fix its problem by raising the entry fee to $1,000 and requiring 500 or 1,000 signatures, thus weeding ou...

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over 1 year ago
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All over Toronto we are leaving our ‘I am not happy’ statements

Too many people are saying my life is miserable so I will make everyone’s life worse in these small ways available to...

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over 1 year ago
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Why Olivia Chow lost the 2014 mayor’s race — and could lose again

With less than six weeks to go before voting day, the big question is if Olivia Chow can avoid the same disastrous fa...

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over 1 year ago
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Mallick: The Curious Case of the Passport Conspiracy, by Pierre Poilievre

This is just the latest in Conservatives testing MAGA (Make America Great Again) Republican tactics, sowing deep divi...

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over 1 year ago
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Why is John Tory leading in the polls and what does it say about the mayor’s race?

The former mayor held massive leads in every polling category — gender, age, income and location — over all the conte...

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over 1 year ago
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King Charles III is not my king — and I’m braced for coronation onslaught

A poll earlier this week indicates that more and more Canadians oppose having Charles declared King of Canada and bei...

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over 1 year ago
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Lingering judges and presidents who punish the weak

Men like Justice Clarence Thomas are the oldest misogynists alive. No job should be for life.

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