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Lesson #64: Here and there – Trudeau, Duffy and Ford
Today we look at Justin Trudeau, the Senate Scandal (the gift that keeps on giving) in the light of emails and other documents just released by the RCMP, and Rob Ford, the embattled mayor of the Queen City.
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Lesson #63: Being in love (with yourself) means (always) having to say you’re sorry
Today’s JuicyLesson begins with a take-off from the movie “Love Story” and please excuse Ali McGraw’s attempt to act. From there I move on to a discussion of Rob Ford’s predicament including a prescription designed to bring this whole sordid mess to its logical and inescapable conclusion.
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Lesson #62: Technique
Today’s JuicyLesson deals with technical issues involved with producing and posting JuicyLessons on my website.
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Lesson #61: 50th Anniversary of Iconic Buddhist Monk Self-Immolation
Last June was the 50th anniversary of an iconic event…the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who burnt himself to death …
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Lesson #60 : Free speech. One each.
What seems like many years ago I was watching a news program on television and observed the following situation: a cop was beating a young man with his nightstick somewhere in the good old U.S.A. You could hear the crunch of bones but they had bleeped out the swear words (“shit”, “fuck” etc.) uttered by…
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Lesson #59: Rob Ford … Embarrassing, depressing and more
I thought I was done with Rob Ford; I really did. However some shocking new comments by the Toronto mayor beg the question concerning the depths to which any human being can sink, let alone someone entrusted with the mayoralty of Canada’s largest city.
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Lesson #58 : Meanderings
Today’s lesson is all over the place from Justin Trudeau to the Buffalo Sabres, and from my trip to Amritsar, India – a real Sikh city – to tainted meat and listeria. There’s even a little – a very, very, little – joke in there to help relieve the tension.
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Lesson #57: Heroes and Nothings
Every Monday, Gazette sports columnist Jack Todd writes an article the end of which is entitled Heroes and Zeroes. Today’s lesson adapts his title slightly to Heroes and Nothings.