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No More Butts!
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Tired of treacle? Watch some alternative holiday movies. Dreading that drunken family dinner? Put a cork in it. Tis the season for grieving? Gift yourself some poetry. And if you’re religiously anti-Christmas, be of good cheer! The whole thing used to be pagan!
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All systems go: 1st all-electric commercial seaplane takes flight in B.C.
(via CBC News)
Tzeporah Berman: Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada's mega mine
(via Vice)
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(via The Star)
For Canada’s working men, an opioid crisis and a blue-collar code of silence are a deadly mixture
(via The Globe and Mail)
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(via The Logic)
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(via Vice)
How William Gibson keeps his science fiction real
(via The New Yorker)
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(via The Verge)
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(via The Atlantic)
Why a Toronto teen called Doug Ford a Timbit
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Comment Noted
The writer of this piece has no regrets. Still, one commenter’s take...
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As someone who was just finishing up grad school when this video was made, I can say that the voiceover at least would have been cringy in even 1988. Very 60s feel to it. And I think most of us have the author’s aha moment at some point, and I suspect in 10 or 20 years he will be cringing at this article as well. No judgment, just life.