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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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Hamster Wheel
I live in a hamlet with a population of 21 people, not in isolation, mind you, but separate from…
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That’s how we rock & roll
Music, the healer of ills, easer of pains, the bringer of great highs and of deep lows. For…
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Some things change
It was no surprise to anyone that the Auditor General’s report on Premier Ford’s opening up of protected lands…
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Some things change
Having been out of the loop for a great many years now, I was a little apprehensive when faced with…
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Manufactured Intelligence
I checked the thesaurus online for words that represented the opposite, or antonyms, of the meaning of the word…
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Headed in the right direction
There’s no denying that women’s soccer has gained incredible momentum in the last few years. It should come as…
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Another Giant Step
We, the Portuguese, are a subdued people. We’re humble, and even somewhat conservative in many ways. So, when someone…
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Around And Around We Go
Seriously, I hope there aren´t too many people reading my articles lately. What I mean is that whoever may…
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Homeward Bound
For some reason, many people consider a vacation as a getaway to a foreign land. In one way it’s…
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A Port In A Storm
As many of us know, when we’re strangers in a strange land, anything, or anyone, familiar and connected to…
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40, And Counting
40 million. Not such a large number of people, when you consider the size of the area known…
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That’s so last week!
“Beauty is only skin deep”, is a phrase used to allude to the fact that a person’s character was…
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Soup
I dislike the term “melting pot”, when it refers to the mix of cultures in any given country.…
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BitterSweet
Big stars and big events are marking this weekend’s 70th anniversary of Portuguese emigration to Canada, focusing the attention…
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Up, Up, and Away
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of our immature, narcissistic, spoiled, uber-rich boys. The mission, to…
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Libertas
As humans, we have a great propensity to take things for granted. Many tend to place the appreciation…
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No Stereotypes, Please
I was very fortunate, even though my parents made a modest living, my mother, (the family CFO), always managed…
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Ai! Ai! Ai!
That was the cry uttered by my grandfather when getting up off the couch, back in the day.…
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