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YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART.

On September 24, 1988, the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson placed first in the 100-metre dash, setting a new world record at the Seoul Olympics. Thirty million Canadians went wild for the born-in-Jamaica runner who was one of ours.

We’re #1!

Seventy-two hours later Johnson was disqualified for using the banned steroid stanozolol. Thirty million Canadians were crushed. This born-in-Jamaica runner was one of theirs. We’re #171!

A Grade 3 student could tell you why we were bereft:

Cheating is bad. A drug that gives you an unfair advantage corrupts the whole competition. Cheating on an exam cheats everyone. If people know the bid is rigged, they won’t enter. Just this week, Norwegian ski jumpers were caught manipulating their ski suits. Norway!

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OUR VERY OWN MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS.

Yesterday, December 6, marked the 35th anniversary of the Montreal massacre when 25-year-old Marc Lépine murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 (as well as 4 men) at the École Polytechnique in Montreal. Lépine then killed himself.

He chose the engineering school because the women there were training for ‘non-traditional’ jobs, yelling “I hate feminists!” as he made his way through the classrooms, separating the women from the men and gunning them down.

Two months later, Ursula Franklin, a professor of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, spoke at a commemorative service there to mark this rare and shocking tragedy.

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DOES BEING LIKE YOU MEAN I LIKE YOU?

Politicians everywhere appeal to people who look, talk and act like them.

Given this universal truth, it’s revealing who Donald Trump appeals to because he’s like them.

So let’s look at how many votes could come Donald Trump’s way because of what we know is true about him.

First, he’s a man. 120 million American men are entitled to vote in the U.S. election.

Next, he’s white. 165 million U.S. voters are white.

At age 78, he’s also old. 650,000 Americans are 78 or older. But let’s loosen the definition of ‘old’ and say he’s “a senior citizen”. Over 72 million Americans fit into that group.

Trump is also a Christian. 150 million voters identify as Christian.

He plays golf, not well, but a lot. 10.4 million Americans play golf.

Trump is also a college graduate, like 125 million voters, and an Ivy League graduate, like 504,000 of them.

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