wRanter.com https://www.wranter.com Gentle and not-so-gentle thoughts and musings from an inner-suburban, recovering perfectionist, husband, dad, basketball fan, content designer, writer and editor with a few opinions Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:11:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wranter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1-150x150.png wRanter.com https://www.wranter.com 32 32 Your word choices might be making me twitchy https://www.wranter.com/2025/11/12/your-words-might-be-making-me-twitchy/ https://www.wranter.com/2025/11/12/your-words-might-be-making-me-twitchy/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:20:39 +0000 https://www.wranter.com/?p=9818 This is coming from a place of love and respect… mostly In a former life, I was a newspaper editor and spent my days making sense of reporters’ sometimes overly flowery copy. The goal: to make complex ideas clear and simple for time-starved readers who just wanted information (or so I presumed, often without a […]

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]]> https://www.wranter.com/2025/11/09/on-being-a-liberal-zionist-after-october-7/feed/ 0 What does the Liberal win mean for Jewish groups? https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/28/what-does-the-liberal-win-mean-for-jewish-groups/ https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/28/what-does-the-liberal-win-mean-for-jewish-groups/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:36:07 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=4213 The longest election campaign in modern Canadian history delivered more than a surprise Liberal majority – it yielded six new Jewish MPs for the winning party: Michael Levitt in Toronto’s York Centre; Anthony Housefather in Mount Royal, and Jim Carr in Winnipeg South Centre – all ridings with large Jewish populations – as well as […]

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]]> https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/28/what-does-the-liberal-win-mean-for-jewish-groups/feed/ 0 It’s time to mend fences in the Jewish community https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/19/its-time-to-mend-fences-in-the-jewish-community/ https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/19/its-time-to-mend-fences-in-the-jewish-community/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:52:10 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=4208 When we sat down in early summer to discuss how we’d cover what was expected to be a five-week fall campaign, CJN editor Yoni Goldstein asked me to write a weekly column about election topics of Jewish interest. The idea – a departure from past practice of mostly limiting ourselves to rather pedestrian riding profiles […]

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]]> https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/19/its-time-to-mend-fences-in-the-jewish-community/feed/ 0 Cultural and religious issues dominate as election day nears https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/13/cultural-and-religious-issues-dominate-as-election-day-nears/ https://www.wranter.com/2015/10/13/cultural-and-religious-issues-dominate-as-election-day-nears/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:55:07 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=4205 Thank God for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). I say that not because trade is an inherently Jewish issue, nor because I know for certain the recently negotiated deal will be good for Canada, especially since its details have yet to be released. Irrespective of its long-term effects, the TPP might be our only hope to […]

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