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Michael's Essay: Playing the Hitler Card

Sunday, May 13, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

Adolph Hitler is making a comeback ---- big time. Yes friends, after his last club date when he bombed so badly in the Berlin Bunker,... Read More »

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Michael's Essay: The Motorcycle That Came From The Sea

Sunday, May 6, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

The islands of Haida Gwai, far off the northern end of Vancouver Island, lie in the direct path of an ocean current called the Kuroshio,... Read More »

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Michael's Essay: Alberta and the pollsters

Sunday, April 29, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

One of the most famous presidential pictures ever, is Harry Truman holding up a copy of The Chicago Tribune. The 1948 election was a tight race... Read More »

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Michael's Essay: The Orwell Gospel

Friday, April 20, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

George Orwell was prescient in so many ways. This week, Michael discusses how an essay the author wrote in 1946 has much to say about... Read More »

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Michael's essay: Let the (Macho) Tears Flow

Sunday, April 15, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

Listen here: (Pop-up) Every time a man of some celebrity or modest fame cries in public, the media slip into warp speed and get... Read More »

Michael's Essay: Fathers and Sons

Sunday, April 8, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

Listen here: (Pop-up) The bathroom door is slightly ajar. The young man at the mirror is carefully running the new razor over the soft... Read More »

Michael's Essay - The Castle Doctrine: Race, Guns and the Legacy of the American Civil War

Sunday, April 1, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

The young black man was on his way home. He was unarmed. It was nighttime. The shooter, a white man, was armed with a handgun.... Read More »

Michael's Essay: A Bay Street Apologia

Sunday, March 25, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

The Street. It sounds like a book title or a movie. In New York, the Street is Wall. In Toronto, it's Bay. Depending on your... Read More »

Michael's Essay: Murder in the name of war

Sunday, March 18, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

In July, 1968, in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai, U.S. troops of First Platoon, Charlie Company, Task Force Barker, ordered the residents out... Read More »

Michael's Essay

Sunday, March 11, 2012 | Categories: Michael's Essays |

Listen here: (Pop-up) This is something the great novelist Graham Greene once said: "Writing is a form of therapy ... I wonder how those... Read More »

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