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Retired from years of journalism and teaching and living in Vancouver. Words to live by: “When we play music, immediately everything is nice.” — Evgenios Voulgaris. Current project is a blog featuring a rebetiko song of the day and more: www.tamark.ca/wp
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It’s a little less startling, of course, but as good as I remember it being. I have the second edition, which has an additional essay that I have so far resisted reading.
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Rereading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; also Welcome to the Hyundai-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum (Shanna Tan translator).
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Can I get the link to the live updates on the No Kings rallies taking place all across your country?
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Let me guess what they have in common.
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The man is a moron.
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Is she really saying the goal of the federal government is to remove the elected leaders of Los Angeles and California?
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“the United States would be guaranteed first right of refusal on Canadian resources”
Omg no
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If only there was some medium, or perhaps media, that was capable of reporting reality as clearly as this.
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I think the first Granville Street redevelopment plan I heard of was when I was in high school back in the late 1960s.
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Some of us were fortunate enough to have grown up with Classic Comics:-)
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It is somewhat insane that this project took 10 years. No wonder we have issues of housing supply and cost.
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You mean that substance that has been legal in California for more than a decade?
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Speak truth and power? Apparently, that's not a thing any more.
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They should at least be honest enough to say "no more immigrants who don't look like us."
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Congratulations and looking forward to a continuation of a greta career. You may be leaving the classroom, but you'll still be teaching.
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Waiting in my small Interior community until it was late enough at night that I could pick up the Vancouver AM stations playing rock and roll
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This bill is seriously in need of amendments. Failing that, I foresee a future of court challenges.
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Its really is time to bring back that oh-so-useful word quisling.
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This is good news and shows a new seriousness about Canada on the international stage. Now, we need to hear your solid plans for climate change, which you identified as a major threat in your book.
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Okay. Bye-bye Uber.
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Did any reporter follow this up by pressing him to define the actual crime? Journalistic malpractice not to.
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If oil production is rising and you have the lowest living standards in the world, you’re pretty much a failed Premier, aren’t you?
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The only way to win is fight.
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Has the CBC at least yet asked PP why he continues to avail himself of the perks that go with living in Stornoway?
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Cool. Retirement really is freeing (albeit on a stricter budget). I realized that what had defined me for more than four decades, no longer did and I was free to reinvent myself.
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If these projects are already underway (they are already being funded) why would the federal government need to plow tax dollars into them?
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If this is how they define masculinity, we really need to keep them away from children.
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Ukraine hits military targets in Russia.
Russia attacks Ukrainian civilians.