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about 2 months ago
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Everything looks the same, the bland leading the bland

This is the era of the generic, the conformist. To protest, vote with your money. Buy the distinctive, eat the unusua...

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about 2 months ago
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Donald Trump has the worst day of his life, so far

The trick of this is that if he somehow manages to escape these first hush money charges — and the procedure will be ...

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about 2 months ago
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Matlow’s ethics suspension for Twitter bullying is not a good look

Never attack individuals, particularly colleagues, on social media. Keep it in-house. People never forget, you see. T...

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2 months ago
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SUVs are Toronto’s dinosaurs headed for extinction

Huge cars don’t suit human life in cities. Their time is over.

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3 months ago
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Blame game unfolds as Millard and Smich appeal murder convictions

Overwhelming evidence in slayings of Laura Babcock, Tim Bosma and Millard’s father Wayne backs guilty verdicts, Crown...

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3 months ago
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When will this huge majority of women and their male allies change the world?

Pick a sector, any sector, and women will be faring badly. That is the state of women’s rights in 2023.

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3 months ago
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Who will survive the AI writing revolution?

Wasn’t technology meant to improve our quality of life, rather than increase quantity of output?

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3 months ago
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Toronto art exhibit illustrates how condo-crazy city risks leaving its past in a pile of rubble

Artists Justin Pape and Nicole Charles have transformed sledgehammered debris, broken bricks, jackhammered concrete a...

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3 months ago
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The Alex Murdaugh trial eviscerates the American hunger for money and power

The key to the trial’s is that Alex Murdaugh is an American type, a George Santos, Bernie Madoff, Donald Trump, a fal...

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3 months ago
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Man wanted in former CBC journalist Michael Finlay’s death surrendered ‘out of the blue’

Toronto police were shocked after Robert Robin Cropearedwolf, wanted on a nationwide arrest warrant, strode into 52 D...

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3 months ago
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Turnip reliance signals downturn for once proud U.K. empire

Keep an eye on the British descent. They might be digging for turnips or they might be digging their own grave.

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3 months ago
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How Doug Ford can make Toronto mayoral elections better

Allowing municipal parties would be a smart move by the premier — a far better than slashing city council in half or ...

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3 months ago
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What Toronto can learn from Chicago’s push to solve transit crime

A surge in money, officers and cameras on Chicago’s transit network have done little to make the “L” feel safer, Rosi...

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3 months ago
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Farewell John Tory: You’ve been a good mayor

While rarely inspirational and too often overly cautious, Tory has led the city through two of its most difficult tim...

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4 months ago
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John Tory made a promise to leave, so do it, now

We watched you quit. You gave your word. Now you won’t leave, claiming your budget is too precious an egg not to codd...

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4 months ago
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Netflix rules changes and the slippery slope of sharing passwords

Netflix taught us about money, social class, and human pain. Now in hard times, we’re learning new lessons, how to te...

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4 months ago
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Justin Trudeau: A six-point reset plan to win re-election

Whitby residents with whom I spoke this week and who voted Liberal in the 2021 election express deep frustration with...

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4 months ago
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The end of plastic bags filled with plastic bags?

Consumers are supposed to buy old-fashioned elegant cloth bags for groceries, which I do at great expense and forget ...

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4 months ago
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High school students will need to be smarter than ever

There is much to be learned in English literature class, but with AI on the way, students will be facing challenges n...

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4 months ago
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Dream of affording a decent place to live may get worse before it gets better

At a time when decent, affordable housing is in such short supply, a true commitment by all is needed to fix our nati...

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4 months ago
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Oh Bloody Caesar! Allow us our ‘ethanol’ escape

People need an elasticizer, something to grease the skids of life. If only two drinks a week can do that, you’re one ...

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4 months ago
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The warnings about Doug Ford and private health care are coming true

Since he became premier, Ford has made little secret of his fondness for private health-care companies.

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4 months ago
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Toronto sculpture show’s little figurines have a life-sized impact

It’s gratifying to see Karine Giboulo sculpt our personal, citywide, national pain.

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5 months ago
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I advise people to adopt the motto ‘Shelter in place.’ I mean, I would if people asked for my advice

Some people manage things perfectly well. I, for instance, try not to leave the house beyond a daily walk under the b...

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5 months ago
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Can Ontario Liberals rise from the ashes?

Rank-and-file members of the Ontario Liberal party, who were highly critical of last year’s campaign, are starting to...

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5 months ago
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Opinion | Let’s stick to our New Year’s Resolutions. Here are mine

Opinion | Let’s stick to our New Year’s Resolutions. Here are mine

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6 months ago
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Opinion | Ontario Liberals court Green leader Mike Schreiner for party leadership

A group of Ontario Liberals see Schreiner as the best bet to win voter support in the next election after two straigh...

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6 months ago
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Opinion | How to stop developers from profiting from Greenbelt controversy

The first step Ontario should make it to expropriate the land from developers at price the land was paid for when it ...

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6 months ago
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Opinion | Pierre Poilievre still all in on his reckless ideas

What’s broken is not “everything in Canada” as Poilievre claims, but and hope the Tory leader would ditch the worst o...

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6 months ago
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Opinion | In 2022, are we reliving 1917 all over again?

Just as families repeat generational trauma, societies collectively re-enact their terrible histories.

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6 months ago
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Opinion | The Gordian knot of blue-on-blue justice

Columnist Rosie DiManno follows the bouncing ball backwards on a police perjury case that leads back to a bathroom br...

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7 months ago
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Opinion | Placing faith in a my post-COVID recovery

I do think people will come out of long COVID with more faith in their bodies because your body is always on your side.

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10 months ago
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Opinion | Like a horse loose in the hospital, Trump has returned to our consciousness

And there I go, maundering on about Trump’s madness, just what the man intends. He’s back in the game.

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11 months ago
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Opinion | Pierre Poilievre is hot for rough old wood — but not in weird way

Poilievre doesn’t like forests or even trees, just wood — “reclaimed” wood that “reclaims” freedoms Canadians enjoyed...

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11 months ago
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Opinion | Yes, abortion rights could die in Canada too

Canadian women have no specific legal right to abortion. In a vast country like Canada, it is easy to make abortions ...

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12 months ago
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Opinion | A wistful look back to the Queen’s coronation

Stan Adamson was a 19-year-old in the Royal Army when he was chosen for the glamorous ceremonial duty of taking a pos...

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about 1 year ago
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Opinion | Afghanistan’s TV anchor veil order one more step toward the erasure of females

What’s becoming clearer by the day is that the Taliban can’t run the country, can’t ease the misery of its people, an...

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about 1 year ago
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Opinion | Russia-Ukraine war quickly exposing mindset that is so deadly for Black and brown refugees

Ukraine has been visited by tragedy and its civilians deserve a generous reception. So do Black and brown people in E...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Will Olympic rings prove to be handcuffs for sponsors of China’s games?

U.S.-based top sponsors are accused of putting profits ahead of gross abuses, including genocide, writes Rosie DiManno.

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