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A slave to retail madness
Rating: NNNNNboth fate and nature seem to enjoy the subtle pleasures of Irony. I am reminded of this as I revamp my CV for my... -
Let Them Eat Cake, I Say
Rating: NNNNNthe oliver twistian convention of begging for food ("Please, sir, may I have some more?") has never appealed to me. I'm rudely reminded why... -
Good reasons to jump up
Rating: NNNNN Bromley L. Armstrong, social activist, founder of the Jamaican Canadian Association and the Ontario Black History Society, publishes his memoirs. Kentucky and Toronto... -
I’m Proud Again
Rating: NNNNNhamilton -- there is an electric moment in times of revolution when all involved succumb to a dizzying sense of shared purpose. Moments like... -
The Pain of Separation
Rating: NNNNNdo the people in our lives not offer enough heartache, so that we must name our cars, parent our cats and -- oh, cruel... -
My Big Moment, Ruined
Rating: NNNNNi've just become a silent-picturestar, and I could slap myself. Here's how it happens. A TVO producer putting together a show about teacher burnout... -
I’m your teacher. Got a problem with that?
Rating: NNNNNduring the romantic period in 19th-century France, a group of poets led by Chateaubriand (a particularly whiny, self-involved poet in a movement based on... -
NEW TRANS SISTER
Rating: NNNNNThe danforth, long a bastion of Mediterranean machismo, doesn't know what's hit it. Insouciantly ensconced between a hobby shop and an old-school diner (the... -
Fall fashion gives luxury bad name
Rating: NNNNNThis fall, fashion's high holy season, I thumb through the fashion equivalent of the Pentateuch -- that is to say Vogue, Bazaar, Elle, W... -
Sick of reality, give me opera
Rating: NNNNNI am slowly losing interest in reality. I am sick of "reality TV," of getting a "real job" and looking "real," as it were.... -
On a royal quest for darling Hilary
Rating: NNNNNI've always been a bit of a royalist. Colonial life is just a little too prosaic for my tastes. In order to resolve the... -
Back to my roots for this Caribana
Rating: NNNNNNot a Sunday in my parents' house can pass without the smell of my mother's curried chicken wafting up into my bedroom to blend...