What is behind fake-wedding trend in Argentina?

Fake Weddings Are the Latest Trend in Argentina

• Julia Zorthian @jzorth

Oct. 9, 2015

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The new fad does away with any messy emotions

A new “wedding” planning business in Argentina will not let anything keep guests from having a good time—especially not the lack of actual marriages.

Falsa Boda has been staging fake weddings, with all the trappings of the real deal: music, dancing, formalwear, and a bride and groom, the Guardian reports. The group has done away with all the emotions that accompany traditional ceremonies (like joy, anxiety, underlying bitterness in jealous guests, and hopefully true love), so that having fun becomes the main objective.

How will Canadians vote?

MARGARET WENTE

Thanksgiving politics, with a side of turkey

MARGARET WENTE

The Globe and Mail

Published Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 8:00AM EDT

Last updated Friday, Oct. 09, 2015 2:13PM EDT

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I can’t remember when my mild-mannered friends have been so worked up over an election. You might have to go back to the free-trade election of 1988. In general, the phrase “exciting Canadian election” is an oxymoron. But not this time. People are passionate about it. No one knows what will happen on election day – or the day after that. My friends are shouting at each other over dinner tables. Thanksgiving won’t be dull. Let the bread rolls fly!

Here’s how the conversation will play out around my table. Many of my loved ones think you’d have to be deranged to vote for Stephen Harper. This truth is so self-evident that you’d be better off admitting you’ve joined the Ku Klux Klan. Harper has destroyed democracy. He has trampled people’s freedoms. He has tarnished Canada’s reputation in the world. He is whipping up Islamophobia and tearing the throat out of the country’s social cohesion. Not to mention the long-form census.