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Joel Rubinoff

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Award-winning journalist, published in the Toronto Star and Waterloo Region Record, specializing in pop culture, parenting and pathological whining
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Kitchener’s David Eby leads B.C.’s fight against Trump tariff storm

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By Joel Rubinoff
| Waterloo Region Record Verified
British Columbia Premier David Eby is receiving national attention as Canada deals with the tariff whiplash caused by U.S. President Donald Trump. Eby, who has characterized the trade war as a “human-caused disaster” coming in like a freight train from the United States, was born and raised in Kitchener. A few months before he became leader of the B.C. NDP, The Record spoke with Eby about his upbringing and time as a student at St. Mary’s High School and University of Waterloo.
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The Record’s former arts reporter is curating a film festival at Princess Cinemas. Here are the five movies he picked

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By Abhiraj Lamba Verified, Joel Rubinoff
| Waterloo Region Record Verified
“When I was growing up in the late 70s, punk rock was the big thing,” Rubinoff said. “Punk rock took the place of stale over-the-hill, aging classic rock bands that had run out of gas and punk came along and was like this breath of fresh air and it breathed new life. “Punk kind of had this anarchic spirit that overturned everything. I think all these five films in one way or another — for me — kind of do the same thing,” Rubinoff said of his film selection.
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Record columnist bids adieu after 35 years

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By Joel Rubinoff
| Waterloo Region Record Verified
The rain is coming down in buckets, a torrential downpour like I’ve never experienced, as if a tidal wave is crashing down on my head. It’s Aug. 16. 2002, shortly after midnight, and I’m standing, dripping wet, outside Graceland, where Elvis Presley’s legions of loyal followers are silently waiting to march past his gravesite, one by one, to pay respects. Already a Subscriber? Sign in I’m 41 years old. I have the beginnings of strep throat. I haven’t slept in five days.
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