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Entries from July 2007

Happy Victories Day

David Frum wrote on July 28th, 2007 at 12:00 am

About this time of the year, almost every year, the Toronto papers fill up with complaints against naming a holiday in honour of John Graves Simcoe. The founder of the city that became Toronto (readers will be reminded) was an elitist and an imperialist. Why should he be honoured on the first Monday in August?
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Burying Our Heads In Radioactive Sand

David Frum wrote on July 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am

Truly, human beings can get used to anything. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a naturalized British citizen, contracts a horrible lingering illness after taking tea in a London hotel with three former KGB agents.
Just before Litvinenko’s death on Nov. 23, 2006, doctors identify the cause of his sickness: He has been poisoned   more

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Paying For French “Efficiency”

David Frum wrote on July 14th, 2007 at 12:00 am

It’s 2:15 on a French afternoon, and I am as usual at this time of day sitting in a cafe waiting to pay the bill for lunch. And waiting. And waiting. When you hear talk of the slowness of French meals, you may imagine haughty waiters languidly presenting an elegant meal. I am sure that   more

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A Tour Of France’s Historic Gas Stations

David Frum wrote on July 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am

My Favourite Tourist Sights Are Those Where You Can See The Present Layered Upon The Past  more

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