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Toronto | wRanter.com http://www.wranter.com Gentle and not-so-gentle thoughts and musings from an inner-suburban, recovering perfectionist, husband, dad, basketball fan, writer and editor with a few opinions Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:36:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.wranter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1.png?fit=32%2C32 Toronto | wRanter.com http://www.wranter.com 32 32 29025677 What can we learn from the Eaton Centre shooting? http://www.wranter.com/2012/06/07/what-can-we-learn-from-the-eaton-centre-shooting/ http://www.wranter.com/2012/06/07/what-can-we-learn-from-the-eaton-centre-shooting/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:54:48 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=2888 It’s a bit of a mug’s game to try to find meaning in the kind of shooting crime that occurred June 2 in a food court at Toronto’s Eaton Centre, in which one man was killed and two other people – including a 13-year-old boy eating dinner with his family who was hit in the head […]

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]]> http://www.wranter.com/2012/06/07/what-can-we-learn-from-the-eaton-centre-shooting/feed/ 1 2888 Being a pulpit rabbi can be a cutthroat business http://www.wranter.com/2012/06/01/being-a-pulpit-rabbi-can-be-a-cutthroat-business/ http://www.wranter.com/2012/06/01/being-a-pulpit-rabbi-can-be-a-cutthroat-business/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:49:33 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=2754 When Toronto Jews awoke last Saturday morning and collected their Globe and Mail newspapers from their doorsteps (those who still subscribe, that is), they discovered a front-page story detailing how Holy Blossom Temple, the city’s oldest synagogue – and the country’s largest Reform congregation, with some 1,950 member families – has, in effect, dumped its […]

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]]> http://www.wranter.com/2012/06/01/being-a-pulpit-rabbi-can-be-a-cutthroat-business/feed/ 3 2754 Things that make me go arghhh! Part 2 http://www.wranter.com/2012/05/30/things-that-make-me-go-arghhh-part-2/ http://www.wranter.com/2012/05/30/things-that-make-me-go-arghhh-part-2/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 03:51:08 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=2668 For your reading and pleasure, or perhaps frustration, I present the second installment of a semi-regular series dedicated to kvetching and carping about annoying stuff that’s been on my mind or in the news. • Police culture in the city of Toronto. Shortly after a report by Ontario’s police watchdog accused frontline officers and their superiors of […]

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]]> http://www.wranter.com/2012/05/30/things-that-make-me-go-arghhh-part-2/feed/ 2 2668 It looks like Rob Ford will never learn http://www.wranter.com/2012/04/19/it-looks-like-rob-ford-will-never-learn/ http://www.wranter.com/2012/04/19/it-looks-like-rob-ford-will-never-learn/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:54:48 +0000 http://www.wranter.com/?p=1574 When Rob Ford ran for mayor of Toronto in 2010, after other more moderate and polished conservatives declined to throw their hats in the ring, there was a lot of hyperventilation on the part of lefties and progressives. After all, here was a guy who as a city councillor got drunk at a Toronto Maple Leafs […]

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