Marilla wex biography of alberta
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The 2018 Toronto Van Attack
Episode 353: On April 23, 2018, a bright spring afternoon turned into a nightmare when a rented van plowed through pedestrians along Yonge Street in North York, a Toronto neighbourhood. In just minutes, 10 lives were tragically lost, and 16 others were injured; one of those later passed away from her injuries, bringing the death toll to 11. The community was left mourning, and the country grappled with questions of how and why such a senseless act could occur. The man behind the wheel was 25-year-old Alec Minassian, a self-proclaimed member of the so-called "incel" community—short for "involuntary celibate." This online subculture, rooted in misogyny and resentment, has been linked to acts of violence, often targeting women. Minassian’s actions that day were not random; they were a calculated act of terror fueled bygd a toxic ideology that glorifies hatred and violence against those perceived as rejecting or oppressing dock like him.
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Haaretz interview
Earlier this month Wex was interviewed about How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck)by David Green, editor of Haaretz newspaper’s Books section. It has just been published as part of Haaretz‘s November books supplement. The interview is reproduced in full below.
A conversation with Michael Wex
Scholar and popularizer of Yiddish, whose latest offering draws from two millennia of Jewish tradition to serve as a primer for being a mentsh
Michael Wex is the extraordinarily entertaining and no-less erudite scholar and popularizer of Yiddish who burst onto the scene in 2005 with “Born to Kvetch.” That book was subtitled “Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods,” but it definitely put the emphasis on the “culture of complaint” − that jaundiced approach to life that has characterized, in the author’s view, Ashkenazi Jewish day-to-day life since Medieval times.
Following a review in The New York Times which described it as “altogether wonder
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6th Canadian Screen Awards
- Madeline McNair, Brennan Lefler, Victor Malarek, W5: "Making a Terrorist"
- Annabelle Tas, The Life-Sized City: "Paris"
- Rebecca Gibson, Bernadette Smith, Madison Thomas, Taken: "Tina Fontaine"
- Katie Nicholson, Katie Pedersen, Joseph Loiero, Jacques Marcoux, Saman Malik, Andrew Culbert, The Fifth Estate: "Betrayal of Trust"
- Jackie Carlos, Destination: Mars
- Al Manson, Jo