Election fever is heating up in Canada. I’ve seen a lot of rhetoric for all of the parties. But this one has to be one of the better ones!

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“Perhaps according to what the backward intelligentsia and scholars say, “Farsi is is like sugar”, and if the name of this gulf is in Farsi, its waters will be sweetened and if it is Arabic the waters will be soured! The use of nationalism in society is exactly akin to that of religion. The aim of governments in encouraging nationalism and clanism is distracting the minds of the poeple from their real problems. All this commotion is over the use of the name Gulf Of Arabia in parantheses! In the north of Arabia there’s hardly any Farsi spoken, yet there is a large number of Iranian in the south of the country who speak Arabic. In summary, in the ports of islands of this gulf there’s more Arabic spoken. One side of the gulf opens to international waters, two of the other three sides meaning the western and southern sides of it are territories of Arabic countries. For Iranian Intelligetsia, stoning deaths [as a form of punishment], mandatory head covers for women, the problems faced by the youth, etc. are not real issues, but the name of the “Persian Gulf” has brought all of them to a reaction and rallied them all.
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As I sat in the movie theater, it started to occur to me. here we are, sitting in a VIP room, watching a movie about the struggles of people over seas. I sip gourmet coffee that was served by the attendant, and ponder this. the struggles depicted in the movie, are real. the conversations are heartfelt and…. well, it did a lot to constrast the current situation in Argentina to the current situation in “our part of the world”.
how do you find a job in a country where the rich are using their power to squeeze the money and resources out? when a grown man, is brought to tears by a factory owner — who with complete disregard for the humanity of his workers — decides to close up and sell off all the equipment?!
in the developed world we have come to accept these things as realities of the competitive market and just shrug our shoulders when we hear about such things. I was grappling with these thoughts when I looked up at the bus station and all I could see was bright neon signs telling me to buy, use, consume various products and services!!

I wasn’t even looking at the street… Yonge street was behind me. in front of me was the bus terminal with people going home and busses pulling in, or moving out.. how can you take time to think when you’re attention is constantly being demanded by flashier and brighter “neon” signs.

I also added a new background.