They say that age is but a number, and there are many days I believe that. Often, I awake feeling relatively youthful, and the daily walks I undertake are conducted with vigor and strength of purpose. Other days, I feel rather keenly the aches and pains (still relatively minor at
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Politics and its Discontents: Powerful Words From Cornell West
Although he is addressing an audience in NYC, Cornell West‘s words are equally applicable on this side of the border. They seem especially important given the Harper regime’s many efforts to tear down Canadian values and the obligations we have to one another as both citizens and human beings. If
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: To Read, Perchance To Think
Shakespeare purists will perhaps forgive my titular, out-of-context paraphrasing of a famous line from Hamlet, but it occurred to me yesterday and today as I read two fine essays published in The Toronto Star. The first, by former Globe writer Michael Valpy (strange how that ‘newspaper of record’ has either
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Attitudes Toward The Poor
“The more wealth you have, the more focused on your own self and your own needs you become, and the less attuned to the needs of other people you also become.” So says social psychologist Paul Piff in response to a study Chronicle of Philanthropy report on charitable giving, discussed
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