Yes, all of that is my first name

"Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language". -- excerpt from Dale Carnegie's"How to win friends and influence people"

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Racism? In the GTA? Really?

I almost threw up today when I was forced to face just how racist my neighbourhood is.

I never talk about racism and rarely about sexism or age-ism or generation bias — I think people have a right to like and not like what they will. Human nature means our primal brains (not our neo-cortex, though!) are still most comfortable with the familiar. Fair. But to hate so much as to have to act on it? I just thought the GTA, being cosmopolitan, would have fewer instances of it.

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