Maybe it's the thin air or the vuvuzelas. Or maybe all work and no play is making all these knuckleheads dull babies. Wow. I've never seen anything like it. What the English and French are pulling is just plain strange and sad at the same time. Let's start with the whiny Brits. They've come a long way since 1066, the Magna Carta, the Enlightenment, Queen Victoria, and the Blitzkri [...]
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Robert Gene
"My mom says not to over-feed him" Robert says of the dog in the industrial park facing his bleak Windsor Ontario home. In this industrial town, everything is a varying shade of gray....
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"Really, I look forward to the Canadian Tire and Shoppers Drug Mart ads, see what kind of specials they have"
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Back in 2005, I found myself traveling throughout Honduras, the third poorest nation in the western hemisphere according to the World Bank. A perilous drive through the winding, mountainous roads on a relic of a North American school bus - wealthy North American Business men sell these mechanical monstrosities to destitute countries, as they cannot afford safer, more modern vehicles.
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Every four years my normal interest in soccer (which I will hereafter call "football," thus indicating that I am a North American but not excessively proud of it, since the word "soccer" just catches in my throat) is elevated to a fever pitch when the World Cup rolls around.
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Andrea Dawes works with refugees and other individuals in precarious immigration situations at Just Solutions, a legal information clinic of the Montreal City Mission.
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