Milk comes when the bell rings
The lives of 83 Robinson St.
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Volume 68
Grandma was wrong (this time)
The truth behind these common old wives’ tales
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No more speed cameras?
Doug Ford to abolish Automated Speed Enforcement Doug Ford has proposed to ban and remove Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE), colloquially known as speeding cameras. Ford argues that speed cameras are simply tax grabs, while some city mayors argue their removal will undo their safety efforts in school zones. Between both arguments is the university’s student
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Superstition… ain’t the way?
Foolish daughter challenges the very wise Voltaire “Elle est la faiblesse du Genre-Humain, & telle sa perversité, qu’il vaut mieux sans doute pour lui d’être subjugué par toutes les superstitions possibles, pourvu qu’elles ne soient point meurtrieres, que de vivre sans Religion. L’homme a toujours eu besoin d’un frein; & quoiqu’il fût ridicule de sacrifier
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“Gin will make you blind!”
“Old wives’ tales,” dementia, and piecing together the metaphysical enigma that is my grandmother’s life “Y’know, my mother always told me that gin would make you blind, and that’s also what Äiti (Äiti means “mother” in Finnish, but has become synonymous in our family with my great great grandmother’s name) said to her, so I’ve
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