Eskimatimu’sipnek nike’ mnja’sin
Blackbird, by The Beatles, sung in Mi’kmaq by Emma Stevens at Allison Bernard Memorial High School in Eskasoni, Cape Breton.See also Kalolin Johnson – We Shall Remain (It Wasn’t Taken Away), Emma...
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Poisons and (Really Bad) Antidotes
My family doctor has this chart on the wall of one of his examining rooms, one of an interesting collection of old medical artifacts.I’m deeply suspicious that the cure for cannibis poisoning includes...
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Inconceivable Complexity
We are watching a livestream of the ECMA folk stage at St. Paul’s Anglican Church across the street.Our bandwidth at home is beamed across Prince Street from the Reinventorium (in the basement of the...
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Download all public GIS layers for Prince Edward Island and use them in QGIS
Back in 2011 I wrote a script to automate the scraping of the public GIS layers that the Province of Prince Edward Island makes available.I’ve updated this script now–download it here–to handle the now...
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Prince County Hospital For the Win
Longtime readers will recall that in 2010, thanks to the good graces of my friend Joan, I came into possession of the tiny letterpress that was formerly the heart of the Prince County Hospital print...
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Every Building in Crapaud
Crapaud, Prince Edward Island is, as I’ve written aboutat some length, a roundmunicipality.According to the History of Crapaud, the boundary of the village was set as follows:It was further decided...
View ArticleWhy don't some shops and restaurants have accessible doors?
As someone who often walks around town with a son with service dog in tow or with a partner using a walker, I notice, a lot more than I used to, when shops and restaurants don’t have accessible...
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25 Plasma Donations
I made my 25th blood plasma donation at Canadian Blood Services today and received this pin from my nurse:It takes me less than 90 minutes a month to donate plasma; in part it’s how I mark the passage...
View ArticleWho built the buildings on Prince Edward Island?
Continuing my exploration of OpenStreetMap as a database, I was curious to know how many buildings are on the map on Prince Edward Island, and how many OpenStreetMap users are responsible for having...
View ArticleThe Prison of the Legislative Assembly
There has been much talk in the U.S. media of late about the possibility that the House of Representatives might vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of congress, leading to...
View ArticleThe Paul Connolly Affair
Speaking of the Legislative Assembly of PEI, while I cannot recall any Member of the Legislative Assembly, or member of the public at large, being imprisoned by the Assembly, during our 26 years living...
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My Own Private Underhay
When the community gathered to remember Josh and Oliver Underhay two weeks ago, Josh’s wife Karri, and his brother and sister, Mitch and Sara, asked people to share how they met Josh:Both Shea and the...
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La Cédille qui Sourit
Last week I read an interview with Musician Tashi Wada in The Creative Independent. The interviewer, Grayson Haver Currin, asked Wada about his parents:At what point did you realize that everyone...
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Canada's Official Photo for Illustrating Stories about Technology
CBC Prince Edward Island is running a story today, Slowdown in P.E.I.’s IT sector growth concerns former head of industry association, that is illustrated with a photo of a person holding an older...
View ArticleElectric Vehicle Charging on PEI
Transport Canada has a helpful page of resources on electric vehicles that includes a link to a map of charging stations.The map includes a link to a developer API at the US National Renewable Energy...
View ArticleElectric Vehicle Incentives on PEI
In the April 2019 Prince Edward Island general election both the Green Party and PC Party platforms promised to incentivize electric vehicle purchases (“Create a purchase incentive for electric...
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Crapaud: Google vs. OpenStreetMap
Here’s an comparison of the maps of Crapaud in Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.OpenStreetMapGoogle Maps Here’s a a more detailed view of the centre of Crapaud:OpenStreetMapGoogle MapsHow I Made ThisIn...
View ArticleGreen Jobs
The newly-elected Green Official Opposition in Prince Edward Island is hiring three positions, with a closing date of May 22, 2019:Communications DirectorCommunity Liaison OfficerPolicy and...
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