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Speak now, or forever hold your peace

If you've heard about the Melancthon mega-quarry in the last few weeks, no doubt you've been asked to sign a petition or watch a YouTube video explaining what's going on. Essentially, some of the most fertile vegetable farms in Ontario will be dug up to make a strip-mine. Unless public opinion …

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The Whiteness of the Whale

Over the past month or so, I've been getting through the audiobook of Moby-Dick. I knew nothing of the book prior to starting other than its status as a classic and the fact that it was about an albino whale. Though long and meandering, the story has become a meditative sanctuary of sorts for me, …

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Like headless chickens

It was a painful experience, watching the media frenzy amid today's detainee document dump. The pre-dump anticipation was building on Twitter. Everyone wanted their hot little hands on one of those USB keys, packed with 4,200 pages of mostly-still-redacted documents. Tweets started to stream in …

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The butchering of Hamilton's street grid has to stop

Today, the inadequacies of postwar traffic engineering were unceremoniously laid bare as a power failure in downtown Hamilton forced thousands of people out of their office towers and onto the few arterial roads that traverse the lower city. For those unfamiliar with Hamilton's traffic history, …

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