Ben Minett

This is a perspective crystallizing article that needed to be written. Kudos to the author! Try to read it! It is pay walled but well worth a one month Globe and Mail membership!

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The ride up was a little crazy but the snow definitely did not disappoint! #powderday #skiing #onstorm

We can’t change the fact that there will always be shocks: like financial crises, geopolitical events, or climate catastrophes.

But we need to understand what we can, and must, change.

The more books you read, the more compassionate you get. The more stories you read, the more you understand other people.

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Absolutely worth a read!

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A users guide for tomorrow’s tariffs.

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Snow. Water. Woods. Dogs. Good company!

If you want to smash capitalism, I can tell you for certain that there are better places to start your quest than bookstores and libraries?! Am I in the freaking Upside Down from Stranger Things? What the hell is going on?

#capitalism
#books
#reading
#activism
#commentsections

Fascinating reading! I just finished a chapter on Benjamin Franklin's life as a bookseller/publisher/intellectual.

Did you know that in later life, he passed the operation of his business to Thomas Jefferson and published Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense"?

#thebookshop #bookselling

If you want to smash capitalism, small businesses are probably not the best of places to start on your quest. I can think of better places.

Sounds like a good idea to me David!

Presently feeding the trolls. I know it’s an unwritten rule not to do this but sometimes, especially when they are reductive, simplistic, polarized (you are either with us or against us) and wrong it has to be done. #trolls

Whether you are a MAGA person, a left wing social justice warrior, middle of the road, or all these things combined, this is pretty damn funny!

Don’t underestimate the Rogansphere. His mammoth ecosystem is Fox News for young people | Sam Wolfson Podcasts like Joe Rogan’s and Theo Von’s aren’t on the fringes. Their blend of off-the-cuff, Trump-leaning commentary blurs traditional lines between left and right – and offers listeners companionshi...

This article articulated the blurred lines of contemporary culture - and its extension to politics - very well.

I have noticed the wolf in sheep’s clothing nature of these folks for some time.

Boys and men deserve better heroes.

#podcasts

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Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp.

Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.

Elon Musk owns Twitter/X.

When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy

$71K grant kickstarts Eden Mills Writers’ Festival fundraising operations Resilient Communities grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation helps the festival plan for fundraising this year

Slow clap to the passionate folks steering the direction of Eden Mills Writers Festival!

In the times we are living through, we need as many places to talk about and listen to ideas as we can get.

#books
#emwf
#guelph

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