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I Predict a Riot

UK hip-hop artist Reveal's reflection on the 2011 Tottenham riots is an amazing work of art. I haven't been able to get it out of my head for the past week, and I'm not complaining. The lyrics are a raw blow-by-blow account of how a peaceful protest by people disaffected with the police was …

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Reflections on Advent

Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the lead-up to Christmas that's steeped in religious tradition. Growing up, my mum would bring out four candles and light them in sequence as each Sunday arrived, bringing us closer and closer to December 24th with each puddle of wax. This was a cultural, rather …

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Bus, train, streetcar, LRV... what's the flavour this week?

The oohing and ahhing over Toronto's new LRVs (for God's sake, don't call them streetcars!) has got me thinking about how we tend to market public transportation. Having spent time in both Waterloo and Hamilton during their respective campaigns for rapid transit, I can attest that much of the …

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Occupy All Streets

This post first appeared as a 2-part article in Imprint, the University of Waterloo's official newspaper. On Sep. 17, I was poking around the Internet when I came across news of a protest organized by Anonymous, the hacktivist collective known for circumventing state censorship to help the Tunisian …

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