To CBC or Not to CBC
In the debate over whether Canada needs a public broadcaster, on the negative side the familiar arguments are forwarded: cbc audiences have dwindled; taxpayers’ money is supporting a greying class …
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Is Osama Winning?
Welcomed here as the dependants of asylum seekers, educated in our schools, taking full advantage of all the benefits this country so generously offers—now they want to destroy us. —Daily …
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Missing Mordecai
The Pope. Prince Rainier. Terri Schiavo. Numerous murders in Toronto the Good. More Iraqis. Satire. Context. Vocabulary. Death, not rebirth, seemed to haunt the news this spring, and it was …
Read MoreIn Memory Of
It always takes long to come to what you have to say, you have to sweep this stretch of land up around your feet and point to the signs, pleat …
Read MorePeace and Order vs. Glorious and Free
As we moved from T-shirts to down parkas and back to T-shirts again during this winter of climate change—one day semi-tropical; the next, polar and full of revenge—political speeches served …
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Be Prepared
The latest Senate committee to investigate the media has set an ambitious goal: to study “the appropriate role of public policy in helping to ensure that the news media remain …
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Talking Through Divorce
boston—Copley Square is a study in contrasts. At the south end sits the stately Boston Public Library, founded in 1848 and built “for the people and dedicated to the advancement …
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A Very Civil War
Prime Minister Paul Martin is trying to articulate a vision that will knit Canadians together and push the Liberals to majority status in the next election
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Fall Classic
Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around—Talking Heads, Crosseyed & Painless
Read MoreClass Is Back
North America is lucky. As two polities tied to Britain, one war-like and fit to be tied, the other much less so, the continent was settled after the notion of …
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