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Death, taxes and The Toronto Star

April 11, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Sigh. Why do I always have to be different? I did not love the movie Bella, so of course it figures The Toronto Star really, really did.

But everyone loves Bella. I have not heard one bad review. So why did I feel like I could not connect with the characters and the story? Some possible answers: I am a robot. OR I expect saccharine Hollywood romance when I sit in a theatre and when I don’t get it, I’m not sure what to do. Perhaps given this crazy world, when a story conveys compassion and real love, it is altogether too confusing. Or perhaps, I have an anti-Toronto Star reflex, which forces me to disagree with their articles even prior to reading them. Je ne sais pas.

In any case, do not trust me and go see the film and decide for yourself. There are some beautiful scenes, and that Eduardo is a beautiful man, in every sense of the word.

You call that sympathy?

March 7, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Re.: Bill C-484, the unborn victims of crime bill, this column about sums up how much sympathy a pro-abortion advocate is prepared to have for women murdered when pregnant.

…the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a woman and her fetus are considered “one person.” That means there are no “unborn victims” of crime…

There you have it. There are no unborn victims. And “unborn victims” gets quotation marks, just to highlight how delusional a pregnant woman really is.

Don’t get me wrong, I like charades–have played it many times. But really, how long can women like Antonia Zerbisias keep this up?

Visibly competent

February 1, 2008 by Raji Shankar Leave a Comment

Couldn’t agree more. As a “visible minority,” a non-caucasian woman, I hope I get hired only because I am competent and capable, not because a government quota said so.

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