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GOLDSTEIN: Face it Canada, we’re living in Orwell’s 1984

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GOLDSTEIN: Face it Canada, we’re living in Orwell’s 1984

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George Orwell’s dystopian vision of the future, 1984, was supposed to be a warning about the dangers of dictatorship and the loss of objective truth, not a guidebook on how to achieve it.

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