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Andrew Griffith
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1:35 As I continue my ‘new normal,’ it is time to shed, or at least place in the background, the cancer layer of my identity. My writing, and your reading and comments, helped me tremendously through the rough and not so rough patches, and hopefully, helped a number of you as well. Putting this all [...]
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Living with Cancer: A Journey
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Living with Cancer: A Journey
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Re-read this book, almost 25 years when I first read it at the time of the fatwah, and it still is an amazing book on migration, good and evil, and fundamentalism as it shifts between reality and dream, and explores the complexities of identity: "O, t...more |
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| Looks at five elements of organizational failures: management/labour, lack of clear accountabilities, not internalizing externalities, hijacking by outside groups, and lack of social and moral context. Some of the short case studies mentioned are not...more | |
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The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto
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| Heavy going, and I think unfortunately, the storyline suffers through the endless details of meetings, killings, drug busts, court cases (successful and unsuccessful) and the like. I admire the authors’ detailed research but a shorter book would be m...more | |
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| In many ways, as I love Paris, an easy tale to fall for, how various characters – bakers, watchmakers, couturiers, restorers, booksellers – weave in and out of each others lives, and how finally the two protagonists come together and find one another...more | |
"I enjoyed both the book and movie. Captures that generation of Iranians and their experience very well."
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| I enjoyed Jan Wong's account of her life as a student during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, and subsequent stint as Globe and Mail correspondent during the Tiananmen uprising and massacre. Much of her story is that of her personal growth a...more | |
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Moderato Cantabile: Toward Principled Governance for Canada's Immigration Regime
by Gilles Paquet
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Much is familiar terrain as per my earlier comments on Deep Cultural Diversity: A Governance Challenge. Unfortunately, the polemical and ideological language distracts from the valid policy discussion on immigration levels, absorptive capacity, the ba...more |
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| 1982 is Gomeshi's memoirs as a teenager in a suburb of Toronto. While he is a wonderful radio host, as a writer, not so. Maybe he was trying to write as a teenager. Maybe he really is as obsessed over his teenage years. Maybe he thinks this period wa...more | |
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