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  • On the trail with the Bernie Sanders campaign

    As a Canadian Bernie Sanders supporter, who is also a U.S. citizen, I decided to get away from futile political spats on social media and...
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  • In memoriam: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, 1949-2019

    Former Toronto Poet Laureate priest, Father Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, who died of a heart attack last week, had a way of making me believe...
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  • KKK marching again in the USA

    DAYTON, OHIO I feared it would be another Charlottesville, the 2017 “Unite the Right” protest that saw white supremacists and neo-Nazis march through the Virginia city...
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  • A paranoid Canadian in Donald Trump’s America

    Columbus, Ohio – I’m hung over and sick but I am not sure if this is a description of my physical or emotional state after...
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  • At Republican National Convention, friendly racists astound

    Cleveland – I came to the Republican National Convention expecting the nomination of a possible fascist as candidate for arguably the most powerful office in...
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  • The Ghomeshi effect

    Clarification  Our December 3, 2014 publication included “The Ghomeshi Effect”, an article regarding the manifestation of transformative justice in social media. That article made reference...
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  • Manifesto for the Responsible Male

    Call out friends whose idea of a “joke” is to make sexist remarks. Talk to your male friends about how to be masculine without being...
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  • CanLit’s continuum of abuse

    In a way, Canada's literary community could use a Jian Ghomeshi. I know that sounds weird. What I mean is that there are certainly some...
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  • Putting on the pressure for peace

    In the past two weeks, I've been to three protests, a march and two vigils in Toronto condemning Israel's military operations in Gaza. I've been...
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  • If looks could kill

    In Barbara Walters's interview June 27 with Peter Rodger, the father of Elliot Rodger, who killed seven people, including himself, in Isla Vista, California on...
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  • The trouble with Woody Allen

    By Jacob Scheier Part of me understood all along the implications of not believing Dylan Farrow, who last week wrote an open letter for The...
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  • No Christian conversion

    When I was growing up, we had a Christmas tree and a menorah at home. I was an only child raised by a single mother....
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  • Grave thoughts

    After her 14-year-old son killed himself, people didn't know what to say, recalls Christie. We're drinking coffee, eating cake and talking about the last thing...
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  • Queens Quay road test

    Let's try a thought experiment: Queens Quay West from Spadina to Bay is closed off - to cars - until March 2014. Or it's not...
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  • Making up me

    A recent Stanford University study suggests that people tend to be depressed by the Facebook status updates of their friends, perceiving their own lives as...
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