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| How to Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice | Dave Gordon
Mon, 25 August 2008
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Parenting is a tough job, and when kids' challenges make it tougher,
some parents unwittingly choose the easy, but wrong, responses. Sarah
Chana Radcliffe, author and psychologist, wants to change that.
How to Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice
is the newest book from Radcliffe, a mother of six, and a
parent-educator with three decades of experience in parenting, marriage
and individual counselling in Toronto....
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| Did Celine deserve an honorary doctorate? | Dave Gordon
Mon, 25 August 2008
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Honorary doctorates used to be considered symbolic accolades for one’s
scholarly contributions, innovations, and oeuvre of literary
contributions. Laval University has added new criteria: Put out a
collection of CDs and have a few top 40 hits. Pop diva Celine Dion received an honorary doctorate from Laval University last week, coinciding with Quebec’s 400th anniversary celebrations.The
National Post printed the announcement on Friday, August 22 (A6), where
a story about Dr....
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| Goodbye to a Hero: ARTHUR STEWART COLLINS | Dave Gordon
Sat, 23 August 2008
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In his self-published autobiography, Before I Forget, Arthur Stewart
Collins recalled how in elementary school he reveled in learning. “I
loved history - the explorers, the pioneers, the nation builders, the
war heroes.” It was he who later became the war hero, who went on to
fly reconnaissance missions during World War Two. He died of natural
causes on April 16, in Toronto, and was to turn 88 this month, on
August 4.Mr....
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| John Edwards Made a Kosher Apology | Dave Gordon
Mon, 11 August 2008
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Every time that a public figure
makes an apology, I get a thrill out of dissecting it for its flaws. Too many
people think an apology is just saying you're sorry, as though accidentally
stepping on someone's foot is the same as betraying someone's trust. Unfortunately, few public apologies really measure up.
I am no fan of John Edwards....
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| The Jewish Defense League Returns to Canada | Dave Gordon
Mon, 28 July 2008
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FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, July 28, 2008
The Jewish Defense League, which began some forty years ago, with
chapters in the US, and eventually various parts of Europe,
reestablished its Canadian office more than a year ago from over a
decade hiatus, and endeavours to counteract anti-Israel activism, while
proactively filling a void they say is left by the established Jewish
community.
The JDL made its most recent public event in March when it hosted a
lecture featuring Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin in Toronto for about
350 attendees....
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| Iraq's Yellowcake is a Lesson for Iran in the Crosshairs | Dave Gordon
Tue, 15 July 2008
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Some 550 tons of Saddam Hussein's
nuclear yellowcake has just been shipped from his former storehouses, and taken
to Canada for
energy uses. This news item has renewed speculation over whether Saddam had, or
could have had, nuclear missiles, and a delivery system for it, had the US
not entered Iraq
in 2003. In fact, one renowned intelligence expert,
John Loftus, believes that some of the raw nuclear materials that Saddam had
been building were secretly transferred to Syria
or Sudan....
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| Time is Life’s Essence: Part One | Dave Gordon
Thu, 10 July 2008
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One of the gravest sins a person
can commit is one that, sadly, is done on a daily basis and is rarely
recognized as wrong. Wasting someone's time is an ethical crime and a moral
sin, but many people treat time – both their own and that of others – as an
endless commodity that can be used or misused at will.
Committing this sin against another person is an act that God evaluates seriously, in large
part because time is something that can never be refunded....
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| Parshat Devarim: Words, And How Best to Use Them | Dave Gordon
Fri, 8 August 2008
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After reading this parsha, I am reminded of the greatest advice for
offering criticism I have ever read: “A man convinced against his will,
will be of the same opinion still.” Dale Carnegie wrote those golden
words in his book “How to win friends and influence people” some
seventy years ago. If there was a theme to this parsha, it would be
those golden words.
Moshe gave an overview of the community’s behaviours over the course of
38 years, rebuking the Israelites for a plethora of failures, including
the Golden Calf, Korach’s rebellion, complaining about lack of food and
water, etc....
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| An Apology Too Late, Isn’t Always Too Little | Dave Gordon
Wed, 6 August 2008
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It's a stereotype come true. The ever-so polite Canadian so
eagerly saying "sooory" has nowhere been more evident recently than the very
person who represents Canada,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He's been on an apology roll in the last year or
so: Native residential school abuses, the Arar torture affair, Chinese head
taxes, and lately for an embarrassing flap with an immigrant ship turned away
almost a hundred years ago....
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| McGuinty’s (Lack of) Faith at Queen’s Park | Dave Gordon
Tue, 1 July 2008
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You may have heard that some want to take Christ out
of Christmas, and give us all "happy holidays." In a recent example of
sanitizing culture, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government wants to eliminate the Lord's Prayer from
the daily proceedings in the Legislature. The prayer was a tradition
established in 1793 under Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe....
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