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It’s Thursday evening under darkening skies. The two teams line up to face each other. Brief glances are exchanged as the players assess possible weaknesses. The referee, officiously dressed in black, signals to the opposing goalkeepers. She blows her whistle.
Another football match in the Mississauga Under 8’s division gets underway. My son’s team, in green shirts, attack down the right . The move [...]

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The graduation plague is spreading throughout Canada. It has now reached the kindergartens.
In this Toronto Star article, a principal defends the kindergarten graduation ceremony claiming that, “Everything your children need to know about life and living they learned in kindergarten.”
All the little scholars passed with flying colours and got to wear a mortar board.
So I [...]

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