Will the election pit Rocky against Thanos?

We want our stories loaded with excitement, we want them to trigger our emotions, we want villains to boo, heroes to cheer, we want plots jam-packed with twists and turns. Not just in fiction mind you, but in real life too.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s will try to play Thanos, the world-conquering alien, from the MCU Avenger movies. Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole will be more of a Rocky Balboa figure. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh might be good as a kind of Billy Bean character from the movie Moneyball.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia, and Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

July 22, 2021

OAKVILLE, ONT.—About three thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks invented what we call “drama” and ever since then our society has had an insatiable taste for the dramatic. We want our stories loaded with excitement, we want them to trigger our emotions, we want villains to boo, heroes to ch...

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