Born in Brazil. Raised in Canada. Educated in USA. Back in beautiful Windsor, Ont., after working in AUS and UAE.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Joined September 2008
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The most expensive things in life are free …
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Canadian Prime Minister Carney’s speech in Davos is worth reading in its entirety for a coherent analysis of the new world we live in — and of the power of the nations that are supposed to have no cards in the age of empires. pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/20…
“Three of the six U.S. science winners this year are foreign-born. You never know who or how the poorest refugee or migrant might blossom into a world-class scientist or entrepreneur.“
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"Canada has always been plural. It has always contained many languages, ethnicities and tribes. The triumph of compromise among difference is the triumph of Canadian history. That seems to be an ideal worth fighting for."
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.
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“It’s like using Monopoly money to buy Pokémon cards.”
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
“The skirt was shiny and eye-catching. She worried about what people would think—what they would say and write about her. I put my hands on her shoulders and said as gently as I possibly could: ‘Who gives a f—?’”wsj.com/style/fashion/law-ro… via @WSJ
Beautifully written, if utterly heartbreaking, obituary of an impressive young Windsorite whose life was tragically cut short in B.C. windsorstar.com/news/local-n… via @TheWindsorStar
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Go see SUGARCANE
So good it made me rethink what documentaries can do
filmforum.org/film/sugarcane
Of X: "It’s like a zombie version of the old Twitter, and I think what a lot of people are feeling is: Just put this bird out of its misery."
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"In dysfunctional groups, people favor loyalty over honesty. In healthy groups, honesty is an act of loyalty." nytimes.com/2024/07/14/opini…
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Still bearing scars of recessions past, Windsor is on the verge of a billion-dollar revitalization theglobeandmail.com/business…
Now this is good news. Welcome to Windsor, @globeandmail!
Looking forward to more insightful reports of the Windsor metropolitan area and can’t wait to read what G&M reporters cover/uncover here over the next weeks and months.
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Superbly written profile of new @FTX_Official CEO John J. Ray III — the guy who built a career “plumbing the depths of management rot” to restore order and recoup funds.
He's the son of a plumber. He once worked at Waste Management. Then he made a career out of cleaning up corporate mess. So now he's the CEO of FTX. wsj.com/articles/ftx-john-ra…
"We must be careful of the stories that we tell. We don’t know what impact they might have 500 years in the future."
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“We’ve got to do better as a community, as a country. We have to do better to provide the supports that people need.”
Local officials to probe how homeless man froze to death in downtown
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#Windsor #YQG
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Do it for your health.
Do it for your happiness.
Do it for your social life.
Do it for your pocket-book.
Do it for your creativity & productivity.
Do it for our public costs & taxes.
Do it for #climatechange.
Do it for a better community & future for everyone.
Do what?
Walk.
