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 Foreign students bring big bucks, strong tiesWith Canadian students needing almost genius IQs, or at least superlative grades, to get into our country's most prestigious universities, a task-force study suggesting the doubling of international students will likely drive up blood pressures here at home.
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 Assange can't be exempt from process of justiceIt's hard to believe that the WikiLeaks soap opera--starring computer hacker and self-described whistleblower Julian Assange--continues to drag on.
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 Gender equity essential to our nation's top courtFew issues lather up the masses as quickly as affirmative action.
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 Civil servant bonuses slap to strapped taxpayersIt's former premier Mike Harris's fault.
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 Pop airport fluency quiz pointless, given noticeLanguage police are coming.
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 Auto workers have learned; teachers should follow suitThere are interesting parallels as two of Ontario's most powerful unions enter contract talks.
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 Serious problems at jail demand specific solutionsFor a long time, most of what happened behind the doors of Elgin- Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) remained hidden.
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 Tales of courage emerge from 'terror-free' OlympicsSo the London 2012 Olympics are in the books, and so far, the international jury has given the whole production a modest thumbs up, cheerio, good job ol' chap!
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 Just like our Olympians, we must support troopsSome Canadian heroes are easier to look at than others.
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 Local students have ally in school board trusteesIt's not every day a group of Ontario teachers has the back of Dalton McGuinty's minority government.
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 Olympics help us tap our passion and prideIt's the homestretch for the London 2012 Olympics and it has been quite the fortnight, as our British friends might say.
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 No need to go overboard on back-to-school shoppingCall it heretical. It needs to be said. Parents spend a stupid amount of money, unnecessarily, on sending kids back to school.
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 Unpredictable lake waters demand greater vigilanceA day at the beach should be fun, but it only takes centimetres of water to spell tragedy.
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 Tax freeze only possible if council cuts spendingThis week, London Mayor Joe Fontana and seven allies took a baby step toward a third-straight property- tax freeze, but this time they may find the footing more perilous.
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 Stupidity behind wheel just as deadly as gunfireForget, for a moment, the deadly block barbecue shooting in Toronto that's revived "summer of the gun" hysteria in the mega-city.
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 Pipelines still safest way to transport crucial oilAccording to Natural Resources Canada, the country's crude oil and natural gas pipeline network is over 700,000 kms in length and extends to all provinces and territories except P.E.I. and Nunavut.
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 What alarm must ring to get Fontana’s attention?Put aside Joe Fontana’s friend and onetime business associate Vincent Ciccone, who’s accused of defrauding investors of $19 million.
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 Convenience isn't goal of liquor sales regulationThe question isn't whether or not convenience and grocery stores in Ontario should be licensed to sell spirits, even though that's the one we ask periodically, whenever we are in the enviable position of not having anything better to worry about.
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 Elections Ontario breach shouldn't have happenedOntario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian said it best: The first thing anyone copying personal information from the public should do is stop.
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 LCBO can't corner market on beer, wine retailingThe citizens of Mallorytown, Ont., between Gananoque and Brockville, are not all radical carousers.
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 Governments doing little amid Toronto gun violenceTorontonians can take no comfort from this week's meetings on gang violence involving Mayor Rob Ford, Premier Dalton McGuinty and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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 Americans still unwilling to consider gun controlThe massacre at a movie theatre in a Denver suburb last week prompts the obvious question: What is going to have to happen before the United States does something about gun violence?
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 If literacy were a sport, Ontario wouldn't medalThe thrill of victory, the agony of defeat--no, not the Olympics, but Ontario high school report cards.
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 Let's put down hand-helds and actually talk at dinner"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
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 Great Lakes can cause even greater tragediesThe news from Port Burwell on Friday welled up that gut- wrenching sadness in all us when we heard two children had died in the warm Lake Erie waters.
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