Here are some basic ABC guidelines that will work wonders if we're all on the same page ( Read more... )

I remember riding the subway one day back in the late 1980s and noticing just how many of the people around me were not white and for whom English was not their first language. Mulroney had opened the immigration floodgates, the results were beginning to be visible (as it were) and I was beginning to worry ( Read more... )

Can someone please point me to a source for murder statistics in Toronto? Preferably a simple chart, showing the number of homicides per year, going back 20 or 30 or, ideally, 40 years? I've spent the past hour and a half with Google and have gotten nowhere.

I anyone can help, I'll be eternally grateful

Lies, Damned Lies and The Apprenticeship of Michael Ignatieff:
His Mistake, Our Fault


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This story both delighted and irritated me ( Read more... )

I am a atheist, laughing at the idea of god from the first time I heard the concept. Worse, I am a leftist - a "social democract" some days, an "anarcho futurist" on others.

A couple of weeks ago, some judge in Ontario declared that a Christmas tree in the main entrance to her courthouse was an affront, of some sort ( Read more... )

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This started as a comment to the last post in this community, but it got so long, and I got away from their original topic a few times, so I just decided to make it a full post ( Read more... )

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill
As that brilliant, complex hero and villain of the 20th century implied, democracy is seldom pretty, let alone inspirational, but it has the virtue of providing for a change of government without blood flowing in the streets ( Read more... )