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Entries by Yoni Goldstein from 12/2011

Rob Ford's Cowardly Move

| Posted 12.03.2011 | Canada Politics
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Ford will revoke the ban on the Toronto Star ASAP if he desires any future in this city. The question is, what's the next step after that? He can't buddy-up to the paper -- reconciliation isn't an option when the entire city knows it would be an entirely empty gesture.

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Why Is Ontario Funding Catholic Schools?

| Posted 12.08.2011 | Canada Politics
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There is absolutely nothing to like about the Ontario government's funding of Catholic schools. Not one thing. It is, quite frankly, a stupid and wholly unfair policy, a relic so far out of touch with the present day the fact that it has lasted this long is preposterous.

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A Year of Failed Protests

| Posted 12.18.2011 | Canada
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We have a tendency to romanticize protesters, those who nobly publicize injustice, and bravely fight against government and all-powerful institutions. We wish we had their guts. But results matter too, and in 2011 protesters weren't very good at getting anywhere.

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