Oh Canada [this is eh!]

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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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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Meandering On The Cow Paths of Life

2009-05-06T06:52:56Z

I'm from a very small town, in a very isolated part of the province. Kitimat, which has a population of 10,000 people on a really generous census day (counting the German tourists fishing at the river, contractors working on mill expansion, colleg...

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Hail in June

2009-07-06T13:45:15Z

The Montreal region had a pretty big storm the 25th of June. Gusting winds and rain strong enough to knock out the satellite (it doesn't happen that often). The real surprise was the marbles sized hail that came down near the end of the storm. ...

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Canada Day Bike Ride

2009-07-01T23:20:15Z

Wow a Day Off a Bike Ride, a lunch out with friends and then being able to watch a bike race this is living. Brian

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happy canada day

2009-07-01T16:30:50Z

Should I have known what an ookpik is? Thanks for pointing out my apparent non-Canadian-ness, savage chickens. I'm gonna have to go cry into a maple leaf now.

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