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June 24, 2012 10:09 am PDT
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Rohinton Mistry's fairy-tale about Canadian neocons
Much-loved Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry delivered the convocation speech to graduates at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto, in the form of a fairy-tale based on A Christmas Carol, by way of a critique of the Canadian swing to a neoconservative right, where social spending exists only to promote "moochers" and society is a fight between bad [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OnJG5EVvVH4/rohinton-mistrys-fairy-tale.html
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