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What do you get when you pit a Quebec billionaire against his Brazilian-born socialite wife? One nasty divorce that teaches us some critical lessons about “rights” versus “responsibility.” The female spouse in question (who cannot be named because of a…Read More→
By Joe Couto on
What do you get when you pit a Quebec billionaire against his Brazilian-born socialite wife? One nasty divorce that teaches us some critical lessons about “rights” versus “responsibility.” The female spouse in question (who cannot be named because of a…Read More→
By Joe Couto on
I know a man–I’ll call him Fred–who is entering his 80th year of life. Fred can recall the Great Depression and the war years. He’s worked through the economic booms and busts of several decades. So what is Fred’s reaction…Read More→
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Earlier this year, I delivered a lecture to a group of human resource professionals who work in law enforcement. The lecture was about diversity–specifically about how communities across Canada are changing as new immigrant groups from Africa, Asia, and Latin…Read More→
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What is the price of democracy? This is not a question about the sacrifices young men and women make on battlefields to defend Canada, our values or any other noble cause. It’s a question of whether Canadians should accept, with…Read More→
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Between 1965 and 1973, Canada sheltered more than 50,000 Americans, mostly so-called “draft dodgers” who objected to the Vietnam War. Many Canadians saw it as an “immoral” war, including then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who said, “[For] those who make…Read More→
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Civic leaders in Toronto apparently have a problem with sex in their city. It seems that the civic leaders are uneasy that consenting adults are setting up “swinger clubs” in residential neighbourhoods. It’s apparently fine to license commercial enterprises that…Read More→
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One of the fun road games I’ve always liked to play with my kids on long summer trips is spotting vanity plates. You may or may not be able to tell something about a person by the vehicle they drive,…Read More→
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There’s something morbid about watching the United Church of Canada (UCC) douse itself with gasoline and prepare to light a match. That’s what Canada’s largest Protestant denomination seems determined to do, judging by a recent conference supposedly looking at the…Read More→
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Where I come from there’s an old saying: “You’ll never know your mother’s pain until you have children.” The Portuguese in my family tend to be the “glass-half-empty” types. We are, after all, the people who gave the world the…Read More→