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Review: Canada’s Place Names & How to Change Them
Canada’s Place Names & How to Change Them Lauren Beck, 251 pgs, Concordia University Press, concordia.ca/press, $34.95 The first name mentioned in Lauren Beck’s study of Canadian place names happens to be that of my hometown of London, Ontario. There are many places in Canada whose names, like London, are borrowed from elsewhere.
Review: Shelterbelts
Shelterbelts Jonathan Dyck, 240 pgs, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $20 While obviously preferable to outright hatred, tolerance leaves a lot to be desired. At best, it amounts to hiding half-buried feelings from the people you resent. It’s a long way from acceptance and often manifests itself in subtler, more diluted forms of prejudice.
Review: Fictional Father
Fictional Father Joe Ollmann, 212 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $24.95 Cartoon characters, the kind found in daily newspaper strips, are suspended in a particular kind of existential hellscape. Trapped forever as they are, they will never age, nor find the agency to change their circumstances, bound to the saccharine fate assigned to them by an unseen creator. But what compels cartoonists to maintain this graphic limbo, day after day?
Humour and humanity bleeds through every page in ‘Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink’
Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink Ralph Steadman, 320 pgs, Chronicle Chroma, chroniclebooks.com, $77 Ralph Steadman has been developing his own idiosyncratic approach to drawing and painting for six decades. Combining tortured caricature, precision linework and spontaneous splashes of paint, his work leaves you an equally polarizing and contradictory sense of unease. The gestural violence and often moral disgust with which he treats his subject matter can be downright disturbing.
Key Takeaways from Cognizant Technology’s Improbable Receipt of a Declination from DOJ | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
Oregon Phases in Country’s First Pay-Per-Mile Program
The Oregon legislature on Sunday passed a bill that could establish something to eventually replace the state gas tax: A new tax on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) that charges people for every mile they drive. Drivers in the new program, which for now will remain voluntary and capped at 5,000 cars, will pay 1.5 cents per mile. Since these drivers are paying for VMT instead of Oregon’s 30-cent-per-gallon gas tax, they will be reimbursed whenever they fill up at an Oregon gas station.
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