Raul Freitas
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All will be fine
There’s no easier way to take money out of our pockets than taxing goods or services that we…
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Through my eyes
The planes had been waterbombing the back side of the mountain range directly ahead of us, (to the South-east)…
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Smarter than the phone
Such is the power that the smartphone has overall of us, that only now, after all of these years,…
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Welcomed with folded arms
I was very young, but recall well the emotion felt, especially by my mother, when entering Canada back in…
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War of the Worlds
As always, there’s more than one side to every tale. Perfectly in line with current times, the now classic…
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Too old for this
With the rise of the industrial revolution came a huge change in the paradigm that is family. I don’t…
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Rude Awakening
Disasters of this magnitude don’t usually occur for just one reason, in fact, I’m pretty sure the causes for…
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Participaction
If you’re a tad long in the tooth, such as myself, you’ll remember those TV vignettes called “body break”,…
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Laborious
I had no idea that North Americans work many more hours per year than Europeans. I actually had…
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A wonderful day in the neighbourhood
It’s not the first time I’ve been called upon to write about the good ‘ol days in Toronto.…
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The Canada way
I’ve never heard of a country that so openly and willingly celebrates its cultural diversity like Canada. All…
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The right mind
It’s not easy being a dude in today’s climate. For years men have dominated the landscape and their…
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We salute you
What is the role most of us play on a daily basis? We are trained to perform tasks…
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Not glamping
Seeing people living on city streets is nothing new. As long as people have been forced to earn…
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The Nature Of Things
The smart phone has embedded itself into our lives like no other of the many inventions ever conceived by…
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Wild west
Like any large city, Toronto has become a place where stabbings, shootings, and pursuits have become a daily occurrence.…
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The Big Blue Marble
We can only guess what it was like in the beginning, but from what we do know historically, we…
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Other ways
It wasn’t long ago that when I happened to come across an electric vehicle on the road, it would…
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Who are we kidding
Here we are at yet another threshold of government response to probably the most prevalent problem/crisis in the “developed”…
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Not Way Better
I remember my high school Urban Studies teacher proudly telling us in class, on more than one occasion,…
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Freedom & Control
We are at a point in time where even millennials are looking old. Those of us who are…
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Numbers
48 teams, 104 games, and 16 host cities in 3 different countries, (2 in Canada, 3 in Mexico,…
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Tenant
There’s the new operative word, because this is what the future will be for the vast majority of…
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The Way We Were
The concept of family, an increasingly ironic phrase in the days we live in. I’m not exactly sure…
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My car is 31
I love my car. It was built around the time that I met my wife. In its day, it…
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The business of education
Modern society is chock full of paradoxes, education being one of them. Just about all of the essential…
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I wish
Here we are, people, that time of year where tradition calls for all of us to start the…
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Trust
The fact is that these days we´re all too busy being led to focus on the calamity that is our…
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Hate
The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes it as: intense hostility and aversion, usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury.…
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Human
As humans, we come in a variety of different packages. One of the things we have in common, (and…
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