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Posts Tagged ‘culture’

News, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
News, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
By Mark Bradley | January 19, 2010 | Feedback (1)
Editor's pick:  For Windsorites, a must read Hume: Markham's bold proposal is suburbia's salvation The land-use rebellion now unfolding in Markham is another skirmish in the war against the development industry. At stake is who controls growth – government or ...
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News from Everywhere!
News from Everywhere!
By Mark Bradley | February 16, 2009 | Feedback (7)
Report: GM considering Chapter 11 filing, new company CHICAGO — — General Motors Corp [GM-N], nearing a Tuesday deadline to present a viability plan to the U.S. government, is considering as one option a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would create a ...
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Last Person to Leave, Turn Out the Lights
Last Person to Leave, Turn Out the Lights
By Brendan | January 20, 2009 | Feedback (5)
     “We will probably be judged not for the monuments we build, but by those which we've destroyed.”  ...
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Hang Onto Your Ego
Hang Onto Your Ego
By Brendan | December 16, 2008 | Feedback (6)
Why do we let buildings fall like casualties to the wrecker’s ball?  Why do we ignore the streets we live on and scoff at what is old and grey with the dust of a thousand ...
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A Masterpiece in the Madding Crowd
A Masterpiece in the Madding Crowd
By Brendan | December 2, 2008 | Feedback (67)
I just had a vision.  In this vision, the downtown bus depot is transformed into a public market, alive with people milling about, haggling prices and debating the quality of a certain eggplant....
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Keep Windsor Weird
Keep Windsor Weird
By Brendan | October 28, 2008 | Feedback (14)
It was late Saturday night.  I was dead awake and needed something other than infomercials and Scooby-Doo reruns to watch so I turned to PBS.  On it was one of my favourite programs, ...
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Two Dollars and Fourty-Five Cents
Two Dollars and Fourty-Five Cents
By Brendan | October 17, 2008 | Feedback (10)
Morning breaks early for the young man.  His eyes like steel traps spring open at the incessant drone of the alarm breaking through the firmament of his dreams.  He gathers himself together and rushes out the door into the chilly autumn morning; indistinguishable from ...
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Everybody Do The Brain Drain
Everybody Do The Brain Drain
By Brendan | October 14, 2008 | Feedback (1)
Unless you’ve been living under a giant slab of granite, you know the world is in financial peril.  I am a listener, I like to listen to people as they talk.  I don’t eavesdrop, I just sit there, quietly in a cacophony of conversation that happens ...
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