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If you wear sweatpants in public is that still an admission of defeat?

June 24, 2018April 26, 2017 by Jonny Ezra

Wearing sweatpants in public is an admission of defeat, unless you are wearing the right kind
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“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat,” the iconic designer Karl Lagerfeld once said. “You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.” But judging by current trends, the creative director at Chanel’s estimation of the classic sweat suit seems way off-base. The fact is, wherever you go these … Read More

Training soldiers how to endure torture and escape captivity is brutal and necessary

April 26, 2017 by John Thompson

Our enemies rarely abide by international law and our soldiers need to be trained for this reality
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Recently, CBC news aired a story about abuse of Canadian soldiers on escape and evasion exercises in the 1980s and ‘90s. As so often happens with contemporary journalism, knowing nothing about the subject is no bar to blithering about it, and the reporters hunted around for a couple of talking heads … Read More

Tangerine Bank bungled its low cost credit card and customers are now paying for it

April 25, 2017 by John Turley-Ewart

There are lessons to be learned from Tangerine Bank's credit card debacle
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So you found a credit card that pays you for using it, offered by a hip bank, Tangerine, that wants to share its profits with its customers by providing 2% cashback on purchases in two categories of the customer’s choice, 1% back on all other purchase, a 1.5% foreign currency … Read More

Too many white kids are going to arts-focused schools … Really?

April 24, 2017April 24, 2017 by John Turley-Ewart

The Toronto Star assumes visible minority students are more inclined to be rappers and graffiti artists than violinists -- why?
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There are too many white kids going to Toronto’s publicly funded arts schools. That is the preliminary angle the Toronto Star ran with when it published this story on April 24, after receiving a copy of a soon to be published academic article produced by an associate professor at the … Read More

More Russian bear sightings in the Canadian Artic

April 23, 2017 by John Thompson

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Russia is returning to its old habit of sending Bear Bombers to test NORAD defences.

The bears in question are Tupolev Tu-95 Russian bombers – with the NATO code-name “Bear.” So, what are Russian nuclear bombers doing mucking around in the Canadian Arctic? The Bear Bomber has been around since 1956, and was first intended as a nuclear bomber… and it carried some whoppers in … Read More