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Are we trivializing the language of death?

May 19, 2011 I recently discovered that an old friend, whom I hadn’t seen for several years, had passed away. It came as a shock. I didn’t know how to reach her family, so I did the only thing I could think of to connect: I looked her up on Facebo… Continue reading

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The Business of Language

August 6, 2007 It’s a languid summer afternoon and I’m tasked with fashioning a light radio piece on what not to wear to work. Two stylish men lolling outside a Bay Street office tower are my first victims. One of them tells me that men wearing ly… Continue reading

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