If you weren’t living in Toronto in 1989, it is hard to accurately convey to you the true, bat-shit crazy magnificence of the Skydome’s opening ceremony. The newly-built, multi-purpose stadium was a massively big deal at the time. It was the first new stadium to open in the city in decades. It had that singular cutting-edge, retractible-roof technology, which was the only one of its kind worldwide. It cost an astounding $978 million (in 2016 dollars), paid for via an …
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To put it succinctly: I’m enraged by the Sex-Ed “controversy” and protests happening at home in Toronto right now. Education should be a right and not a privilege worldwide, but it is not. Ontario is lucky to have the amazing PUBLIC school system it does. Parents boycotting school in Ontario over sex-ed should be ashamed of themselves. Not only are most of those same parents ill- or mis-informed about what the curriculum actually contains, but they are actively preventing their …