On September 7 I took my first class of Philosophy 220A, Symbolic Logic, at UBC. I’ve wanted to take such a course since the spring of 1964 and I suspect I’m the only kid on the block to have nursed a symbolic logic dream for that length of time.
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A Farewell Note from Jack by Jack Toronto
Posted on 05 March 2012.
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Hey, Connect!
Posted on 05 October 2011.
Why is it hard to connect? We each wear a mask to present ourselves to others as we want to be perceived. People connect only when the masks come off.
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Pensioners Beware By Jack Toronto
Posted on 15 September 2011.
There are two main courses of action for seniors looking to protect their financial interests: political action to change pension amounts and regulations and careful planning to ensure that full benefit is gained from the pension and tax regulations as they exist.
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Riotous Thoughts By Jack Toronto
Posted on 04 August 2011.
my psychiatrist and learned that in people susceptible to depression intense feelings of suspense, anxiety and fear of loss can trigger associations with past experiences of deep depression. I had not lost my sense of perspective on a sporting event, my brain was taking me back to a very dark time.
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Temporary Foreign Workers Vulnerable to Abuse
Posted on 06 July 2011.
East Vancouver couple accused of domestic slavery, people smuggling. Filipino woman forced to work around the clock, police say” An East Vancouver couple is being accused of forcing a woman into domestic slavery after police found a Filipino woman living illegally in the couple’s home.
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Candus Churchill Shines the Light
Posted on 07 June 2011.
Singing or acting, Vancouver’s Candus Churchill’s got soul. It don’t mean a thing if it doesn’t swing from deep inside up and out to embrace audience and performer in the creative instant
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Who Is Black?
Posted on 12 May 2011.
Lacking a secure and positive sense of personal worth we try to elevate ourselves by putting other people down even to the point of regarding them as subhuman. We cannot love the other unless we love ourselves
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Portrait of a Coloured Past
Posted on 21 April 2011.
What a story. What a life. It’s been filled with hardship, hard work, triumph and tragedy. Rose’s character sums it up at the conclusion of the prologue to “Lost Lesotho Princess.”
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Aging By Jack Toronto
Posted on 07 March 2011.
If I am powerless then I can just do the best I can without anxiety over results. Imagine no anxiety! I can be free to live in ways that let me blossom into the best person I can be while helping others to grow as well.
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Roots by Jack Toronto
Posted on 18 February 2011.
My great great great grandparents left Devon, England, for Troy, Ontario in 1823. Headstones for their parents are in the churchyard in Parkham,
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