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football and education
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The Dis-“Union” of College and Football

  • ByErin Drushel
  • February 6, 2014
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] I love NFL football.  Of all the quintessentially American things…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman – One of the Great Ones

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • February 5, 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, on stage and screen.…
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Road to Sochi
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2014 Olympics: Road to Sochi… and Beyond?

  • ByErin Drushel
  • January 22, 2014
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics: Everyone’s invited… but check your protests…
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Revolution in the Air: The East, Russell Brand, Donald Sutherland & Catching Fire

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • January 5, 2014
Revolution was in the air in 1968, even in an excessively qualified way in the Beatles’ song “Revolution:”…
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The thing about Reddit
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Censorship vs. Idealism: Reddit’s Mistake

  • ByErin Drushel
  • November 6, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] At a time when internet giants such as Google are…
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The Counselor: 1 + 1 + 1 = Zero

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • October 29, 2013
The Counselor has a lot of things going for it. A-list actors. Some of the biggest names in…
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Preserving democracy
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Preserving American Democracy

  • ByErin Drushel
  • October 9, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] A notion that has really solidified for me this week…
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healthcare
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I Miss My Canadian Healthcare

  • ByErin Drushel
  • September 19, 2013
By Erin Drushel A Canadian Perspective on American Health Insurance [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] The first official…
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Going postal
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Congress: ‘Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman!’

  • ByErin Drushel
  • July 24, 2013
By Erin Drushel What’s Keeping the U.S. from Going ‘Postal’ on Rates and Services? [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”right”]Erin…
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US immigration
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Immigration Reform vs. A Divided GOP

  • ByErin Drushel
  • July 10, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] The great hope for a bipartisan solution to reforming the…
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American Voting Rights: Erosion or Modernization?
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American Voting Rights: Erosion or Modernization?

  • ByErin Drushel
  • June 26, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) struck…
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Conflicting Expectations

  • ByErin Drushel
  • June 13, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar]It was a two-for-one sale on privacy last week when a…
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Massey College, University of Toronto: The Wisdom Windows. Sarah Hall.
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Sarah Hall’s Glass Art – Colour & Light in Toronto

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • June 13, 2013
There’s a line from Dennis Lee I like to savour: “Day after day the light rides easy.” I like the complex riches of this simple line: light as a gift, light as the universe’s prayer to us
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Equality
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The Long Road to True Equality

  • ByErin Drushel
  • June 5, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] We are witnessing history in the making.  The U.S. Supreme…
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InRetro Magazine/Radio Archives
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R.A. Dickey’s Knuckleball

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • May 28, 2013
[avatar user=”jporter” size=”medium” align=”left”]J.S. Porter, Writer, Poet[/avatar] (for my son Daniel) Imagine devoting your life to mastering an…
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Disaster Politics

  • ByErin Drushel
  • May 27, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar]The last thing anyone needs to worry about following a natural…
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It’s a Miracle, Not a ‘Reality Show’

  • ByErin Drushel
  • May 13, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar]Miracles do happen.  And apparently, they happen in Cleveland. On May…
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Havana a good time
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Rules Are for Tools – We’re ‘Havana’ Good Time

  • ByNancy Duffy
  • April 26, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] There are many more important issues going on in the…
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Trudeau
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Fearing the Engaged and Informed Canadian

  • ByNancy Duffy
  • April 15, 2013
Typically, an 80% means an “A” on your report card, unless of course you’ve just won a leadership…
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Havana a good time
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Rules Are for Tools – We’re ‘Havana’ Good Time

  • ByErin Drushel
  • April 14, 2013
There are many more important issues going on in the world today than where two American celebrities take…
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Roger Ebert
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Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013) – 10 Things I’m Going to Miss

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • April 14, 2013
10.       Bravery. He was born in the middle of a war and lived to fight in at least…
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Constitutionally challenged
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Constitutionally Challenged

  • ByErin Drushel
  • April 8, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] There is a reason why I like the works of…
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Miss Stereotype Majors in Matrimony (with a Minor in Social Climbing)

  • ByErin Drushel
  • April 3, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] Don’t delay!  Make the most of your university experience!  Graduate…
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The issue of gun control...
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Another Case for Gun Control

  • ByErin Drushel
  • March 28, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] Not all American gun-owners are Yosemite Sam.  There is a…
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Quentin Tarantino & the Theme of Revenge
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Quentin Tarantino & the Theme of Revenge

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • March 4, 2013
He’s the filmmaker of our time. Manic and visionary, he has soaked in cinema, video games, pop culture,…
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“Let’s Make A Deal!”

  • ByErin Drushel
  • February 25, 2013
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] Alright, alright… I give up! Let’s talk about – cue…
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Jody Foster at The Golden Globes
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Jodie Foster’s Impact at the Golden Globes

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • January 24, 2013
If you had a wordle for Jodie Foster’s speech, some of the key words would include: confessional, stories,…
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Election Day U.S.A. 2012: The Morning After

  • ByErin Drushel
  • November 7, 2012
“Hello fellow Swingers! – Bob “Hoolihan” Wells, former Cleveland TV personality, as his character from his “Readings by…
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Hemingway’s 47 Endings to A Farewell to Arms
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Hemingway’s 47 Endings to A Farewell to Arms

  • ByJ.S. Porter
  • September 21, 2012
Papa Hemingway is enjoying a reboot. Woody Allen made him a star in Midnight in Paris, albeit a…
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The Unmasking of Mitt Romney
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The Unmasking of Mitt Romney

  • ByErin Drushel
  • September 19, 2012
By Erin Drushel [avatar user=”ErinDrushel” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Erin Drushel[/avatar] Released this week were secretly recorded videos of a fundraising…
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Photo: From the “Safe Here” video, featuring Amber LeBlanc (left) and Amy Ward (right). Photo by Clare Siobhan. 2020.
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  • The Podcast

Ep 81. Ten Speed Bike and the Summer of Clare Siobhan.

  • ByNancy Duffy
  • August 20, 2020
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  • The Podcast

Ep. 80 Where We Live: Walking Home During and After a Crisis. A talk with Urban Planner, Ken Greenberg

  • ByNancy Duffy
  • May 19, 2020
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  • The Podcast

Ep. 79. Essential Work During and After a Crisis: When We Need Radio… And When Radio Works from Home

  • ByNancy Duffy
  • April 28, 2020
Canada’s Emergency Response Benefit We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
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  • The Podcast

Ep. 78. We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat – CERB Expected to Expand. A talk with Irek Kusmierczyk.

  • ByNancy Duffy
  • April 7, 2020
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