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Will The Real Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Please Stand Up?
If you’ve read even a couple of my posts, you’ll probably be able to guess that yours truly is more than a little bit political. The problem with having political views pretty divergent from the rest...
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Fame Day: Nate’s Vlogs
We really can’t get started on Fame Day without giving a shout-out to the youth of France, who have turned out en masse over the past couple days in protest of the forcible deportation of a Roma...
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Culture War Correspondence: Cultural Sensitivity
GORDON: Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening. Our topic for tonight comes to us from the distant country of Sri Lanka, where a British woman has been deported for transgressing local standards of...
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Bigotry, Borders, and Beyond
Let’s try a little exercise here- What’s the first image that pops into your head when I say the word “refugee”? For many, it will be that of displaced African villagers, perhaps with stomachs bloated...
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Not so Nice After All: 4 Examples of Racist Canadian History That You May...
Canadians like to think that we’re a pretty nice bunch. Especially now, as Drumpf’s presidential candidacy reveals the racist underbelly of our neighbours to the South, we Canadians pride ourselves on...
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There Are Actual Newts Less Slimy Than Gingrich
This week’s post won’t be a long one. After all, there’s not much to say that we (and a thousand others) haven’t said already. It’s been another day, another senseless and tragic attack. Another wave...
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Our Fascist Overlords (So Far…)
There’s an old Arab quote that roughly translates to “Don’t tell me about a man, tell me about his friends.” i.e, you are the company you keep. In spite of the present efforts for a recount in certain...
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Grading Obama
There’s a tendency in this country to speak of ex-presidents with the same generosity one would use to speak of the recently departed. A “funeral parlance” (if you’ll forgive the awful pun) that leads...
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