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Competition is fierce amongst Toronto’s newspapers this morning to win this week’s Front Page Challenge; with the recent American missile strike on Syria, opening day for the Blue Jays, and two other sports playoff series about to begin, there’s plenty of material and variety to work with this morning. But as far as winning goes, as Christopher Lambert in Highlander memorably observed, “There can be only one.”
Before I left Nepal, I was into emo shit, Backstreet Boys, and regular teenage shit. At that time, the situation in Nepal was shaky. There was a Maoist insurgency, and an armed insurrection was happening in the countryside. But the thing about growing up in Kathmandu is that in other parts of Nepal people were hurting, getting killed, but Kathmandu is the capital city, and we were upper middle class, so we were sheltered from that. Also, even when you have school closures on an almost weekly basis, when you’re young, you take it in stride. You’re like, “Great, school’s shut down; I’ll just go back to my comic books.” But at a certain point, Kathmandu came to a complete standstill because of protests and uprisings. And then, in June 2001, the whole royal family got massacred in one night, and my mom was no longer confident about her kids having a stable education in Nepal. So, we got visas.
Trampoline Hall has had all sorts of speakers since its birth a few years back. Even Mayor Miller delivered a lecture on a subject in which he could not claim himself expert, as per the lecture series’ rules. Tonight’s theme is the origins of everyday expressions, and, if past shows are any indication, you’d do […]
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