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Why I live in Montreal

By on June 28, 2012 in My life

I’d like to tell you why I live in Montreal. I came here in 1990. I was fresh from my Master’s programme in English Literature and needed a second-language credit to finish, so I came to do French immersion. Two weeks into the programme, I knew I was going to stay. Although I’d grown up [...]

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Snapshot from my life

By on June 12, 2012 in Uncategorized

I had the edifying experience of helping my mother survive a stroke. In the same week, she had her non-paralysed leg amputated. She went from being an active 77 year-old—who swam at the Y six days a week—to a person with only one functioning arm. When I say the experience was edifying, I mean precisely [...]

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Romancing the Riot

By on June 5, 2012 in The Strike

I’ve been posting about the Montreal student strike for a few days now. I’m doing this because I feel the need to get a more balanced view out there. It seems there is a very strong tendency, on the part of people inspired by the “We are the 99%” movement, to believe any protest is [...]

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Being Cool is Overrated

By on June 2, 2012 in The Strike

Originally posted on June 2, 2012. As a survivor of a school shooting, I’m surprised. I’m surprised no one is making the link between the student strikers and the school shooters who have left their mark on Montreal. Why isn’t this happening? I think it’s because the strikers are way too cool.  And their admirers, usually [...]

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