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Just For Laughs 2014: Out comic James Adomian juggles male strippers and...
Stand-up comic James Adomian found fame doing impersonations of George Dubya on late-night TV (Photo by Robyn Van Swank, courtesy James Adomian) American stand-up comic James Adomian says he is more...
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Letter: To visit a disaster site or not? Leaders can’t win
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And for that matter, if a president or prime minister doesn’t visit the damage caused by a natural disaster or...
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Adil Charkaoui gains Canadian citizenship
MONTREAL — Once the GPS tracking system that allowed Canadian authorities to follow his every move for four years was cut from his ankle, Adil Charkaoui wanted two things from Canada: citizenship and...
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Society shouldn’t have such low expectations of its senior citizens
If you are in your twenties, you’re probably good at guessing the age of people who are your own age or younger — and bad at guessing the age of someone who is 70 or older. In 1968, Simon and...
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Doug Camilli: Margaret Atwood has faith in Hollywood
MONTREAL — Despite the experience of almost every other literary writer who ever took Hollywood’s money, Margaret Atwood says she’s optimistic that Tinseltown will do justice to her words. HBO is...
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Visual arts: Economics, alchemy and empathy at Musée d'art contemporain
Two new exhibitions at the Musée d’art contemporain are at opposite ends of the contemporary-art scale of complexity of interpretation, while a film that blurs the line between art and documentary...
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Montreal this morning: It's gonna be a bright sunshiny day
If you’re off today, you’ve lucked out: It’s shaping up to be the last sunny day we’ll see until Tuesday or Wednesday. The forecast calls for mainly clear skies with a high of 25. The UV index will be...
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Opinion: Justin Trudeau is his own man now
The first time I ever went door-to-door canvasing was in 2009 with the newly elected MP from Papineau, Justin Trudeau. The few hours we spent together, just the two of us, gave me an unexpected glimpse...
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Opinion: Canadians, Donald Trump's candidacy is no reason to panic
Since the 1990s, the U.S. political roller coaster has often confounded Canadians. Many scoffed when the largest country in the world seemed to be paralyzed for months by the oldest scandal in the...
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The Right Chemistry: Sulphur has a long, colourful past
Looking across the harbour from Vancouver, you can’t miss the giant mounds of sulphur waiting to be shipped around the world, mostly destined to be converted into sulphuric acid, one of the most...
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