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		<title>My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 06:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don&#8217;t want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, across the water from the island I live on. He&#8217;s been a celebrity there for a long time, first as the city&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I won&#8217;t pray for Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Kenneth Brown In the aftermath of the Paris killings, the Facebook world has been, as is only appropriate, afire with opinion, speculation, ire and sympathy. I do not have the kinds of Facebook friends (I’m happy to report) who leap to make bigoted statements about Muslims, or to publicly indulge in revenge fantasy. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Right to the heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Rod Mickleburgh And so it ends, as it almost always does in baseball when you embrace a team, with heartache and a taste of bitterness. After a magical, three-month run that delivered such delirious thrills and joy to me and millions of others across the country, the Toronto Blue Jays are gone, leaving players [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gay allies: Are you really on side?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Dave Brindle We&#8217;re in the middle of Pride season. The biggest of the top 10 festivals – Toronto, New York and San Francisco – are over now, but that leaves Montreal and Vancouver still to come in Canada, and a host of smaller ones around the world. They&#8217;re everywhere these days. Port Alberni, BC, will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sophie chose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Rod Mickleburgh One of the early things I did after ending my daily journalism career of 119 years, besides endless Googling of past Montreal Expo games, was take in the Vancouver public hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in September, 2013. The experience was overwhelming. It’s one thing to read about the unspeakable [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This time it&#8217;s personal, Leafs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Jim Henshaw The word Fan derives from fanatic. Because when you are a fan of a particular sports team, a true fan, you live and die with them, relish their victories and endure their defeats. Yes, they often disappoint, even embarrass. But that’s the trade off that comes with the commitment. And in those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Béliveau: An Hab even a Leafs fan could love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Rod Mickleburgh As a diehard Leafs fans in the late 50’s and all through the 60’s, I don’t feel qualified to say much about the magnificent Jean Béliveau, who gave up the game Tuesday night, after a long skirmish in the corner with numerous afflictions. As always, it took more than one of them [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nobody home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Item: &#8220;Nearly a quarter of condos in Vancouver are empty or occupied by non-residents in some dense areas of downtown, a signal that investors play a significant role in the city’s housing market.&#8221; Item: &#8220;At the summit of luxury, taking advantage of the voluptuous and expanding architecture at the very top floors, we have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Tale of Three Kitties: Cats allow cafés to come to Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A BoB Short Cats and cappuccinos may not seem the likeliest combination, but the idea has stirred the pot for several entrepreneurs across the country. The concept is simple: Come in for a coffee and play with a few cats while you&#8217;re there. The first “cat café&#8221; opened its doors in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. They&#8217;ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quidditch, Canadian style</title>
		<link>http://backofthebook.ca/2014/06/01/canada-hosts-2014-quidditch-global-games/10664/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 01:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A BoB Short: Twenty-eight athletes from across the country will be dusting off their broomsticks to represent Canada as they host this year’s International Quidditch Association (IQA) Global Games, the international championship of a sport taken straight from the pages of Harry Potter. IQA’s style of quidditch differs from its fictional counterpart in a few [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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