Bob Ramsay

The Plague-Ground – The right to bully voters is under threat

The First Amendment lets Americans say pretty much anything to anyone, anywhere. The Second Amendment lets them keep and bear arms. So can they turn up at polling stations on November 3rd, armed and belligerent and, in the words of their President, “watch very carefully?” No, they can’t. In this case, what reads like 1+1

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The Plague-Ground – More immigrants; more restaurants.

Two years ago, the New York Times food editor Sam Sifton spoke at the University of Toronto about the rise of Syrian cuisine in Canada. He apologized for his President’s nasty immigration policies and their inhumane consequences, and said he loved Toronto because “more immigrants mean more restaurants.” We all cheered. It seems that our

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The Plague-Ground – When you’re the lead dog, the view always changes.

In 2014 when the Rogers’ family gave $150 million to create the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, part of that went to discover how AI can prevent and treat heart failure. Last year when Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman gave $100 million to build the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, part of

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The Plague-Ground – NOT THE BEST CANADIAN IMMIGRANT. NOR THE BEST AMERICAN ONE, EITHER.

“Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups?” asked Chris Wallace. “Proud Boys?” replied Donald Trump….“Stand back and stand by.” That was the defining moment from a Presidential debate that CNN’s Dana Bash called on-air — “a shitshow.” Yesterday, all kinds of articles explained who the Proud Boys are: America’s #1 anti-immigrant, all-male, all-white,

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