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"The student Christian movement, I think produced more communists than devout Christians" James Laxer is one of Canada's leading political thinkers and the author of fourteen books. In 1969, he was one of the founders of the Waffle Group, Canada's largest New Left political movement. In 1971, at the age of 29, he ran second for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party. From 1978 to 1981, he was the host of TVO's interview program The Real Story. Between 1981 and 1983, Laxer was ...

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"In a proud communist family, if you were born on the birthday of Joseph Stalin that would be a wonderful thing" James Laxer is one of Canada's leading political thinkers and the author of fourteen books. In 1969, he was one of the founders of the Waffle Group, Canada's largest New Left political movement. In 1971, at the age of 29, he ran second for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party. From 1978 to 1981, he was the host of TVO's interview program The Real Story. Between 1981 ...

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"We were going too create a new man and anything that must be done to achieve this end is morally and ethically correct" James Laxer is one of Canada's leading political thinkers and the author of fourteen books. In 1969, he was one of the founders of the Waffle Group, Canada's largest New Left political movement. In 1971, at the age of 29, he ran second for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party. From 1978 to 1981, he was the host of TVO's interview program The Real Story ...

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"My Christian family was very formal and my Jewish family was very close and intimate" James Laxer is one of Canada's leading political thinkers and the author of fourteen books. In 1969, he was one of the founders of the Waffle Group, Canada's largest New Left political movement. In 1971, at the age of 29, he ran second for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party. From 1978 to 1981, he was the host of TVO's interview program The Real Story. Between 1981 and 1983, Laxer was the ...

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Unlike the sabre tooth tiger and the giant sloth bear, bison are the only large animal to survive the ice age only to be threatened by no less an enemy than humans. As the herds dwindle, international tax lawyer, visionary and bison conservationist Tom Olson is working to restore the noble beasts to their rightful place in the Canadian landscape. Along with his wife and ten children, he bought six bison and tended them on their ranch in Alberta. Over time that number grew and they now care ...

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RALPH COCHRANE had first hand knowledge of the effects of multiple sclerosis, having watched his mother struggle with the illness his entire life. After participating in several charity runs for the MS Society of Canada, he felt the need to do more so he married his love for travel with his passionate desire to fund research, and created MS Climb. The first excursion was a climb in Peru in 2007 where 23 climbers raised over $150000. Since then, the initiative has grown into a five year plan ...

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Listening to Stephen Lewis speak of the plight of African grandmothers who are often the sole means of support for their AIDS-orphaned grandchildren CAROLE HOLMES realized she could not sit idly by. She and 12 other women formed the Oomamas one of the 220 groups that form the Grandmother to Grandmother campaign. Supported by the Stephen Lewis Foundation, the groups goal is to raise and channel funds to grass-roots organizations in 15 sub-Saharan African countries where AIDS has left ...

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"The crisis that we're going through now is not some minor cyclical crisis. It's a profound crisis that's going to change the structure of the global economy" James Laxer is one of Canada's leading political thinkers and the author of fourteen books. In 1969, he was one of the founders of the Waffle Group, Canada's largest New Left political movement. In 1971, at the age of 29, he ran second for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party. From 1978 to 1981, he was the host of TVO's ...

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"The more civilized a society is the more sex and aggression is repressed" Catherine Gildiner wrote her doctoral thesis on the influence of Darwin on Freud, and has been a clinical psychologist in private practice for several years. She has written psychological advice column for Chatelaine magazine. Her first book, the memoir Too Close to the Falls, was published in Canada, the US and the UK to wide acclaim. The second volume of he memoirs, After the Falls is coming out this Fall. She is ...

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"The majority of the population on the very edge of survival is generating enormous profits for a very small part of the human race" James Laxer is one of Canada's leading political thinkers and the author of fourteen books. In 1969, he was one of the founders of the Waffle Group, Canada's largest New Left political movement. In 1971, at the age of 29, he ran second for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party. From 1978 to 1981, he was the host of TVO's interview program The Real ...

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