An Imperial China version of torture: slow death by a thousand cuts. A Canadian version: repeal of the long gun registry. Draw your own conclusions on which is more civilized.
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A possible Free Trade treaty with the world’s largest nation. Tell me, Stevie Wonder, what would we get in return for our fresh water and minerals?
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Several days of rumour have given way to “the lead story on the news this evening”. As summer vacation draws to a close, if you are farsighted enough to put your money on the ticket counter in ten days time, and you enjoy the close companionship of tens of thousands, then you, too…
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Polar opposite experience: POE. My new acronym to describe this morning, wherein the new early warning system functioned perfectly. Unlike Tuesday where nobody seemed to realize that you have to announce a school closure for it to work properly, I had already received multiple phone calls and email messages before the web site had kicked in. Home for the day. The only “bémol” as people say locally was that my partner in things had to go to school, even though things were closed, because a talking head had decided that employees should show up to man the empty classrooms.
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The outgoing chair of our beloved CRTC (the people that brought us quotas on rock’n’roll) has made it clear. New technologies have made it very hard to protect our culture. And by that (as an extension), culture is what the CRTC deems it to be. Now I get it!
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Last weekend, during a CBC radio show, the narrator took some time to assure us… guys don’t get jane Austen. I didn’t have much prior material to work with, other than some minor contact in high school English class. No, wait, that was Bronte. Right period, wrong name. Anyhow.
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If only the makers of law were forced to study one of the mathematical disciplines. Something where pairs are understood. Something as simple as matching parentheses. Something where the law “going in” matched the law “going out”.
posted in politics | Comments Off on In favour of matching brackets | 318 words
It’s Wednesday, and the forecasts aren’t in my favour. The snowstorm won’t be big enough, and the local war criminal has found another loophole to avoid deportation. I can blame the weak snowfall prognostication on fate, but the war criminal… I’m at a loss.
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It’s been said before, and it will be said again. You’re either with us, or against us. Polarized thinking. And right now, the Harper government has adopted the slogan, in form if not in words. Check the Wikipedia reference, if you have any doubt.
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With the extra burst of energy from a complete breakfast, I made it through the last day before vacation with a smile on my face. Good breakfast: eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, croissants, coffee… all served up hot at work. How off the wall is that? I didn’t have to do the dishes, or stir the eggs, or a blessed thing. I could learn to live with that level of care.
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