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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Joanne's Journal: October 6, 2013

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JOANNE'S JOURNAL Edition No. 13 QUOTE OF THE DAY October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Have the Leafs become goons?

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Hockey goon Colton Orr In his 211th professional fight, Montreal's George Parros went down for the count on Tuesday night, missing...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Shakespeare in the Age of Twitter

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Language, we are told, is fluid, and constantly evolving - and not always for the better.  To illustrate my point, I have taken Shakespe...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Opposing the Quebec Charter of Values is NOT Quebec-bashing!

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Quebec Preimier Pauline Marois Nationalism is an infantile disease.  It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein Not surprisi...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Labour Day and the dignity of work

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“ If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shak...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Boy, were they wrong!: Some really bad predictions

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Bad Predictions After compiling a list of some of the world's worst predictions for Number 16, I realize why the expression ...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Charles Whitman and the 1966 Texas Tower shootings

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1963 photo of Charles Whitman By now, Americans are virtually unshockable.  When we hear the latest workplace shooting, the latest sch...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

An afternoon in Aci Castello, Sicily

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Buon giorno My travels continue.  I am now in Italy and I am staying in the ancient seaside city and commune of Aci Castello in S...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Travels in France: Saint Emilion and Cognac

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Saint Emilion Bonjour mes amis.  Greetings as I continue my sojourn through France.  I spent yesterday morning in the quaint wine-grow...