Oh Canada [this is eh!]

Remember Your Winter Tires

2009-12-10T05:50:39Z

Next time you bitch about how it's now a law in Quebec to have winter tires between December 15th and March 15th, there might be a reason for it. I should mention that this photo was taken on December 8th, a full 24 hours before the 35cm of snow ...

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Olympic Torch Relay

2009-12-09T03:47:30Z

This morning I took the three kids to watch the Olympic Torch relay as it passed through town on it's way to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Before you think I'm the best dad ever, just to let you know I did totally lose it on them getting everyone...

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Book Review- The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins

2009-11-07T19:37:22Z

The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins New York: Dutton (Penguin Group Inc.) June 2007 John Perkins writes out of guilt. Carrying on in the tradition of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History ...

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To be a woman

2009-11-30T04:07:02Z

To crack and break Twisted off like a twig Thrown outside the circle Discarded to the birds Ignored To bend and sway Dipping with pain Deep in your belly And tears that stream So to wash it all away To push and shove Till your arms are achi...

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Sloan - Hit & Run

2009-11-23T21:11:16Z

The new Sloan EP Hit & Run has dropped (as they say) and it's pretty good. If you're unfamiliar with Sloan I'll make the assumption that you don't live in Canada but if you do... shame on you. And if you don't live here you should move, I'll wai...

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Welcome to My World

2009-05-15T03:09:49Z

Dear readers, First off, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my blog. A little about me: I am a Canadian who spent my childhood in Africa, but went to high school in Toronto, Ontario (the city with the CN Tower- I know, prett...

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Dear CBC

2009-10-26T22:29:22Z

This is a delayed post. I wrote it a month ago into my day planner, just having to get it off my chest one day, but unable to get to computer. Dear CBC, Please do not prop-up the electorates poor understanding of the workings of parliamentary d...

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Zellers Starts Treating its Customers Like Sweat Shop Workers

2009-07-30T05:10:27Z

Like many things in life it started out as something simple a trip to the mall to buy summer shorts. What the trip reveled about global markets and low prices was what was enlightening. First it was the clothes themselves over produced with feat...

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Summer in the City

2009-07-19T16:01:21Z

I am so sorry friends that I neglected to tell you I would be away from a computer for a month and a half! I am in Toronto working at an inner-city ministry as a lifeguard and camp counselor. But rest assured I am building up material and blog p...

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What I Learned from my Father

2009-06-22T00:41:16Z

I can sum up my early relationship with my dad in one word: hero. My dad was my hero. I saw him as the protector, the fun-maker, and the thinker. When we would have guests over, I would sometimes prefer to sit on his knee or besid...

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