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How important is the knowledge of history, anyway? (Editorial, November 9th, 2011)
The video age has brought recent history into the present, it seems, and, while everybody has seen the public-domain newsreel footage of frozen corpses on Germany's Eastern Front, the attitude I get from viewers is that they're no more impressed than if seeing a new special effect. However, unlike a hockey game or action movie, the heroes did not live to fight another day. They are dead. Ended. Their grandchildren have, at best, a hand-written line in a log somewhere as their heritage....more
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SOUTHERN ONTARIO'S CURSE (Editorial, October 13th, 2011)
The latest television ad from Rogers (southern Ontario’s curse) features another bumbling male acting as a failed mentor to boy needing direction.
The new and oh-so-brilliant, oh-so-vivant slogan for the oh-so-new ad? “Out with the old and slow.”
In this ad, Rogers is trying to talk about.....more
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YOU ARE FIRED!! (Editorial, September 14th, 2011)
I have been fired from or quit every job I ever had but one. I imagine that is true for you, as well.
I believe before you get in a position where you have to fire somebody, you should have been fired, yourself. There are two reasons:.....more
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Workers from ABROAD
The year 2010 saw 283,096 temporary foreign workers come to Canada, which is the most in our country’s history. As NDP leader Jack Layton said to Conservative Stephen Harper during this year’s election debates: “Why so many temporary foreign workers? We’ve got more of them coming in than immigrants....more
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Built on Trust and Change
If you enter “Canada’s heritage” into Google, you will get back over seven million “hits,” or results. None of them appear to “get it.” The first return is for the Canadian government’s Heritage Canada program for magazines....more
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