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Planning in Defense (Bridge Technique Series)
Planning in Defense (Bridge Technique Series)
Short and full of practical examples, each book in the ‘Bridge Technique Series’ takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have all twelve?Critics’ Viewpoint”Good quality material and good value.”- BRIDGE PLUS magazine”Inexpensive, attractive and well-organized”- The Toronto Star”A host of valuable tips.”- The Toronto Star”The series will not disappoint.”- Bridge Plus”Highly readable, and students will not find reading assignments burdensome.”- ABTA Quarterly
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So, the Toronto Star is releasing a mess of Hemingway’s columns online. Which is, you know, pretty rad, all things considering.
*heads off to see if he can buy a collected version of the entirety of said columns*
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The Red Green Show: 2001 Season
The Red Green Show: 2001 Season
Wit and wisdom of Possum Lodge As Red says, “When the going gets tough, switch to power tools.” When his nephew Harold returns to be Possum Lake’s new head of public relations, Red doesn’t know if his life has gotten harder or easier. But it’s certainly more fun. In this complete 11th season of the public television hit’s 15-year run, Mike tries to be a daredevil, Ranger Gord goes on strike, and Harold accidentally rents out the lodge to nudists. Red, of course, comes up with even crazier contraptions, including a castle car and lawn-mower coffeemaker. Join Red, Harold, and all the guys at Possum Lodge for a year’s worth of doing what men do when women aren’t around — and some things that are even worse. “Merry mix of slapstick, one-liners, and wacky situations” —Toronto Star. EXTRA JUNK: Production notes written by series creator Steve Smith. -
The legendary writer’s reporting from the Toronto Star archives, featuring historical annotations by William McGeary, a former editor who researched Hemingway’s columns extensively for the newspaper, along with new insight and analysis from the Star’s team of Hemingway experts.
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Aha the Toronto Star is a joke.
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“Canada has long been seen as a land of plenty,” Olivier De Schutter, the U.N.’s right-to-food envoy, told an Ottawa press conference.
“Yet today one in 10 [Canadian] families with a child under 6 is unable to meet their daily food needs. These rates of food insecurity are unacceptable, and it is time for Canada to adopt a national right-to-food strategy.”
No, what shames me is the churlish response of my federal government to the U.N’s honest, good-faith call to action.
Jason Kenney, Tory immigration minister and designated hitman on the admittedly scathing U.N. report, managed to put out of mind his own government’s lecturing to China on its abysmal human-rights practices, and to Washington on its folly in not promptly approving a pipeline megaproject that poses environmental risks for U.S. citizens.
“It would be our hope that the contributions that we make to the United Nations are used to help starving people in developing countries, not to give lectures to wealthy and developed countries like Canada,” Kennedy said Wednesday.
Actually, the wealthy nations could use a lecture, on, say, the 2008-09 meltdown of their quick-buck financial system that imposed a recession on the world, disproportionately afflicting developing nations.
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SickKids patient tells us why he can't let go of his turntables
This is a story from the Toronto Star.com
DJ Skinnzy, a.k.a. Alex Salmon is a SickKids patient who tells us how music helps him to get through tough times and why he won’t ever let go of his turntables. This is truly inspiring!
