• Week of 12.05.2013 — Apply Now to Live on Mars | Nazi-Themed Wagner Opera Now Cancelled | Air Force One is For Sale | Pakistan Election | Liberia Journalists Protest with Black Front Pages | Iron Man Publicity Stunt Fail | QUIZ TIME: 4th Grade South Carolina Science | 10,000 Dissidents Detained in Eritrea | The Cardinal Sean O’Malley Boycott
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• Week of 05.05.2013 — Bangladesh Factory Fires | Syria | Left vs. Right: The Roundtable Goes Into the Weeds | Guns and Children | Canada Can’t Account for $3.1 Billion in Anti-Terror Expenditures | Søren Kierkegaard’s 200th Birthday | Cannibalism in Jamestown | Toronto Pastors Fleece Their Flock | Job Listing: Professional Porn Identifier
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IT WAS ONLY eight days after the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and Rose Schneiderman was in no mood for playing nice. Addressing her (mostly) middle-class audience of Women’s Trade Union League supporters, she said:
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.
• Week of 21.04.2013 — Boston Marathon Attack | Storm Thorgerson | Rita MacNeil | Neskantaga First Nation | Icelanders | US Gun Legislation Fails | Beothuk | Pervez Musharraf | Cod
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• 5-6 April 2013 Ka Na Ta Conversations • 7 April 2013 The Roundtable Episode 37 • 13 April 2013 Interview with Shelagh Rogers • 14 April 2013 The Roundtable Episode 38 • 15 April 2013 Ben McNally Bookstore book launch 18 April 2013 University of Toronto Jackson Lecture • 23 April 2013 Steven Wilson
"A good debate is a rare pleasure. I happen to think there is a longing in our day for real debate, “real” meaning unscripted and open and unsanitized and pugnacious and occuring over issues that matter." | READ There’s much talk about debate these days, but do we even know how to do it?
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