Schooling: Repeat After Me
My first teaching experience was in the late 1980s at Westwood Secondary School, located north of Toronto’s airport in Mississauga. The local population was clearly transient, “just off the plane” …
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The Brawling East End
A mosque in East London
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Young Patriotic Fervour
Young Patriots of the Ivory Coast
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Do the Math
Why ’rithmetic shouldn’t make you cringe
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Warm Fuzzy Justice
Colorado’s circle of justice
Read MoreChaim and the Great Time Elevator
Oscar-nominated actor Chaim Topol is the narrator of the Time Elevator, an amusement ride that takes visitors through 3,000 years of Jerusalem’s history in just under thirty minutes. / Image …
Read MoreIs 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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Down with Perfume
New York perfumer Christopher Brosius wants you to smell like you.
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The Punk Who Would Be King
stratford—In 2001, I took a carload of people to a reading by Chris Rickett, infamous resident and future political operator of Stratford, Ontario. We had dinner at a friend’s house—venison …
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The New Word Order
hong kong—Imagine this seating chart for a dinner at a literary festival in Hong Kong. A Chinese-American novelist sits next to an English author of Indian extraction. To his right, …
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