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My mother raised me in priority neighbourhoods all my life. She never once acknowledged the repercussions that definitely seem to follow. I can remember the day I was moving into Jane and Finch, and we were given a tour of the home by the superintendent.
Hey, what’s goin’ on? Everyone calls me Dope. I been playin’ ball since I was, like, 2. While ppl like you were learning how to ride bikes, I was workin’ on my handle. Moms made me play at the community centre. She sed I was breakin’ all her CDs and all that. Ooo yea, I grew up in the ‘hood. Continue reading In and Out
I’ve been wondering about this for the longest time: What is happiness? It’s never a constant thing – in fact, different eras have had different ideas as to what makes their inhabitants happy. For us now, it’s wealth, and the accumulation of material possessions. In this day and age, we often are implicitly told if you’re not rich and don’t Continue reading The Concept of Happiness
“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” -Oprah Winfrey Do not listen to the stereotypes, you know better. Just because there are barriers does not give you an excuse to Continue reading Deprived or Alive
“What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.” -Aristotle. If you live by this, you will always be in control of your own actions. Everybody’s life has its ups and downs, and most people rely on God to guide them. For those that do, today I went to the tattoo shop to get a Continue reading Serenity Prayer – with a twist
In the city of Toronto we have a mayor who is running the city based on a neoliberal ideology. Mayor Rob Ford believes that private enterprise will do a better job providing services to the people than government can, and thus he is on a mission to privatize or sell off government agencies. Neoliberalism is a market-driven approach to economic Continue reading Does running a city with neoliberal ideology work?