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  • Quebec protests: Not so Grand Prix

    Montreal - thousands of tourists headed here last weekend for the Grand Prix, but I came for what I assumed would be a more interesting...
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  • Hostility and the Montreal protests

    While thousands of tourists headed to Montreal this weekend for the Grand Prix, I was there to see a substantially more aggressive spectacle: the Montreal...
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  • “Maplespreading” Quebec’s student protests

    The energy was high, even if the crowd was modest at a Toronto rally last night in solidarity with striking Quebec students. A couple hundred...
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  • Road wrong

    You've probably noticed this, but a bicycle is actually not a car. When it comes to the rules of the road, however, it seems the...
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  • Poetic pugilism

    The poets at my table in the dimly lit Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre are discussing a friend's facebook posting that called tonight's NOW sponsored...
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  • Giller gossip grates

    Alongside 30-year-old johanna Skibsrud and her Giller Prize-winning novel, The Sentimentalists, the other big winner on November 9, unfortunately, was The Scandalists, a "true" story...
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  • Giller gossip

    Alongside 30 year old Johanna Skibsrud and her Giller prize winning novel, The Sentimentalists, the other big winner last Tuesday night, unfortunately was The Scandalists:...
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  • Satire lost in the Sanity

    Washington DC - Considering the trouncing of the Democrats on Tuesday (November 2), including the victory of several Tea Party candidates - not to mention...
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  • Sane thoughts at the Rally For Sanity

    The crowds at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear were insane - in size and by and large nothing to...
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  • My ultimate Clockwork Orange horror story

    When I suffered a bedbug infestation in my apartment two years ago, I spent much of my time crying to friends and family through bloodshot,...
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  • Bikes counter spin

    I know The Matrix has become a kind of clichéd metaphor for progressives and radicals. Those of us who took the red pill (by reading,...
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  • Death becomes them

    New York City - When it comes to health care reform, the U.S. reminds me of a relative I had who suffered paranoid delusions, likely...
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  • Holy homo

    New York City - Peter (not his real name) was friendly, partial to shiny accessories and owned about a dozen pairs of shoes.[rssbreak]I assumed at...
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  • Big Apple foot fetish

    New York City - Until recently I wondered if there's anything my native Toronto has over this city, with its robust cultural life, stunning architecture,...
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  • Like being on E

    Washington - Out of the millions of people in and around DC's National Mall for the historic inauguration of the first African-American president, I estimate...
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