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Government's pro-capital punishment leanings

The Conservative federal government has given us another glimpse of its true colours this past week, with two shocking announcements related to Canada's commitment to abolishing capital punishment worldwide.

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Tastes so good, but feels so wrong: Some facts about MSG

There's a reason why Chinese food tastes so good at 3 in the morning: Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), that sprinkling of taste enhancing goodness that urges you to gulp down forkfuls of General Tao's chicken even after you're full.

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Rolling up my pant leg to ride and getting involved

With my decision to stay in Toronto this past summer, and my growing lack of impatience for having my schedule dictated by someone else's late bus, I decided to roll up my right pant leg and join the thousands of other fierce Torontonian bicyclists.

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The annihilation of procrastination

For the past few weeks I have witnessed (as well as participated in) many "I hate my life" pity sessions that ultimately lead to hell, or something equally as atrocious.

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Do you ever get the feeling that this year has been filled with recalls of products manufactured in China?

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Have you been to the bookstore lately? I have, and I saw a book that drew me in with just its title: it was Skinny Bitch, by Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman. I was so mesmerized by their promises that anyone could become a "skinny bitch" that I started reading.

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