By PAT WATSON   The hysterical partisan politics that plays out in government palaces of power serve as lessons about where political identity can take a nation and the unpleasant consequences. Listen t
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By PAT WATSON   Have you seen the television advertisement from an insurance company that features a storyline with a husband and wife in which the wife is White and the husband is Black?   N
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By PAT WATSON   To deny something is to either lie about it or else to say truthfully that it never happened or never existed. Being ‘in denial’, however, is a different matter; it is a psychologica
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PAT WATSON   It always sounds trite when politicians say they don’t pay attention to polls because any person who means to keep a valued career going pays attention to related trends.   The
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PAT WATSON   A drive through a Parkdale neighbourhood with a friend one evening in January 2009 turned into a wrenching police encounter for Dr. Clem Marshall. The experience is one that is all too fami
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By PAT WATSON   E, G, S, and N: If you are a parent with a child or children in elementary school in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) you should know the significance of these letters in school
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BY PAT WATSON   The weekly wage for garment workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, where in 30 minutes a historic March 25, 1911 fire took the lives of 147 workers, was based on pi
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By PAT WATSON   If you want to look for abuses of employee rights in the working world, look first to what happens to Black workers. A story familiar to many in our community has to do with training a n
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By PAT WATSON   For far too many years, on far too many occasions, until I got to be either too old or too hard-eyed, I had been sexually harassed or worse. That doesn't make me special; it marks me a
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