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The Beach Is Being Rebuilt
A tiny Florida beach town is rebuilding after a hurricane. Is it becoming a preserve of the rich? They're calling their neighborhood Paradise. And it's the first town I've visited that doesn't appear to...
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Los Angeles County’s Police Departments Are a Crime
Letters to the Editor: Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León have done grave racial harm to L.A. County’s Latino community, and we should all stand and condemn their actions. There is not...
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Hurricane Matthew Could Hit the US Virgin Islands
Op-Ed: Hurricane Ian and the coming climate crash As Hurricane Matthew approaches the US East Coast, the government is making contingency plans and preparations in an attempt to prevent a major weather event. The...
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Keesmaat defends her column that used headline about COVID-19 deaths to refer to broader story
Toronto Public Health’s vice-chair responds to backlash over Sun column about COVID-19, says her only aim was to ‘promote discourse’ The new Toronto Public Health spokesperson, Jennifer Keesmaat, has been answering questions about her...
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The Problem With Gerrymandering
Op-Ed: A big reason the South goes red? Gerrymandering and voter suppression A lot of people talk about the “red state” vs. the “blue states” thing — usually by pointing to the percentage of...
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Unusual Uses of Trousers
Nicholas Goldberg: In defense of long, bug-crushing, Kleenex-box sized novels “The more I read, the more I like it.” That is one of the most common rationalizations for reading very large books, a common...
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The Queen’s Birthday in Botswana
Cloud of colonialism hangs over Queen Elizabeth's legacy in Africa. Photograph: Peter Marshall I It has been two and a half years since Queen’s birthday in June and almost nine months since I returned...
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Mary Beth Long’s “Angela Lansbury is Too White”
Letters to the Editor: Angela Lansbury, the actress you really wanted to work with I’ve been following the comments on several of my recent columns concerning the lack of diversity at work. I was...
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Maria Sharapova banned for nine months for doping violation
Russian teenager banned from tennis for nine months following anti-doping breach RUSSIAN tennis star Maria Sharapova was banned for nine months on Monday for a doping violation dating back more than four years following...
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The Ontario Essential Workers Are Dead
They made doors, gum and jerry cans. Ontario’s ‘essential’ workers in manufacturing accounted for more workplace COVID deaths than any other sector — even health care and defence. We need to remember that the...