I salute the best people of the year although, to be honest, everyone behaved so badly that all you had to do to get on a best-of-2018 list was eat all your carrots. Look, my dinner plate is empty. The City of Toronto. We competed for the new Amazon headquarters, but unlike the other 237 bidders, we didn’t offer billions in tax breaks to one of the planet’s richest and harshest corporations. Corporations are not people, my friend, and we needn’t grovel. Amazon asked for crime stats, so Chicago offered thousands of murders, Austin several serial killers as yet uncaught, and Tucson sent Jeff Bezos a giant cactus because Arizona is dying of drought and that’s the only thing containing water. Christine Blasey Ford. “I was … wondering whether I would just be jumping in front of a train that was headed to where it was headed anyway and that I would just be personally annihilated.” She was. I donated to the GoFundMe campaign set up by Blasey’s friends after her testimony against the monstrous now-U. S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. (After covering the cost of repeated moves and hiring security guards to keep her safe, she will donate the rest for trauma support groups.) There was nothing else I could do to help and that hounded my heart.Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. You don’t have to like or even agree with someone to sit down and have a talk with them, Freeland believes, and she means it. She will talk to anyone, treat them with respect and, after pausing to think, will respond with courtesy even when your ideas are daft and your intentions foul. It’s disarming. It is the opposite of Trumpishness and exemplifies the best of Canada. @Nicole_Cliffe. This Canadian writer and journalist tweets fast and funny, drawing people out to tell, speculate, snitch, and be their most candid, entertaining selves. Co-founder of The Toast and now living in Utah, she is truth serum in human form, she is that rare ...
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