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 Letters: May 22Start pay cuts at the top
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 Scorched earth over oilsandsThomas Mulcair has been a federal MP for five years, yet he has never visited the oilsands in northern Alberta, although he says he's planning a sojourn sometime this spring.
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 Equality fosters strong economyAre equal rights good for the economy?
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 Quebec created 'spoiled brats'The Quebec Junior Anarchists Club (otherwise know as the student unions) has claimed its first political casualty.
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 Why Charles will be king . . . eventuallyThe Latin term is facile princeps, obvious leader.
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 Monks gone wild shock Korean BuddhistsSix leaders from South Korea’s biggest Buddhist order have quit after secret video footage showed some supposedly serene monks raising hell, playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking.
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 Banning bottled water? Yeah, York will get around to itAs a one-time arts student at York University (she sensibly bailed one term into her first year), my wife has somehow ended up on that school’s e-mailing list and regularly receives notices of great import, which the administration thinks will please or thrill their alumni and perhaps induce them to cut a cheque or make a bequest to their old alma mater.
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 Sometimes it’s best just to let events, uh, rideJake and I often ponder together about the complexities of life, although to be honest I do most of the pondering and Jake does most of the work because, you see, Jake is my horse.
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 Time to get buzz started on Memorial Cup of 2012Seven years ago this city put on a party that would rival any NHL hockey town.
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 Play the hero, Biebs, and save dayWho could have guessed an 18-year-old named Pattie, perhaps frightened and with nowhere else to go, staying at the Bethesda Centre for pregnant teenage girls in London, would give birth to a talented little boy named Justin; Justin Bieber.
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 Food aid not cause of conflict, but resultThe May 9 opinion piece Aid caught in the crossfire by Michel Kelly-Gagnon suggests that food aid fosters conflict and that promoting export trade from developing countries is a better answer.
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 Narrowing the fieldAfter 11 demonstrators were killed outside the Ministry of Defence in Cairo early this month, Mohammad al-Assaf, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), expressed his astonishment that anybody might suspect the military of wanting to rig the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt.
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 Anonymous jury members unsung heroes of justiceFor the past two months, the media have focused on the criminal trial of Michael Rafferty, who was charged with the abduction, rape and the murder of Tori Stafford. On the night of May 11, we learned that he was convicted on all charges.
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 Letters: May 19Proposed EI changes will cause hardship for many
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 Turns out I’m a great driver . . . when I’m unconsciousIf you happened to be driving down the Bayview Ave. extension in Toronto at 3:15 p.m. last Thursday afternoon, you would have seen a strange sight.
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Ignorance no excuse in resume error Scott Thompson, the chief executive of Yahoo, earned an accounting degree from Stonehill College in Easton, Mass.
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 Reader-to- Reader: May 19Say farewell to Fagans
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 Letters: May 18Mulcair's theories not entirely without truth
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 Bible offers no opposition to gay rightsFollowing hard on the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic and courageous announcement of his full support for the marriage of committed same-sex couples, the floodgates of sharp condemnation have opened wide.
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 Letters: May 17Bring LTC up to speed
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 Rule change in China Tibet's hopeThe number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in protests against Chinese policy has grown very fast recently: The first self-immolation was in 2009, but 22 of the 30 incidents happened in the past year.
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 North gets chill from McGuintyNorthern Ontario has never been homogeneous. Its vast geography and the rivalries among municipalities make it a hard political animal to tame.
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 Letters: May 16Trial deserved whole front
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EI is not entitlement insurance If you lose your job, you shouldn't have to take work that is beneath you.
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 Letters: May 15No excuse for ineptness
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