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Five Images that Represent Province House
As a self-identified stakeholder, I’ve been invited to participate in a “Visitor Experience Strategy Workshop,” hosted by Parks Canada, about the future of Province House:The workshop will consist of a...
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#ClimateStrike
I had a regular weekly meeting that ended at noon today, which gave me an opportunity to close the meeting by going on strike. Perhaps not too brave a move when I’m my own boss.I walked next door, to...
View ArticleIt's now a Climate Crisis in the Newspaper
From an editorial in today’s Charlottetown Guardian (which is part of the larger SaltWire conglomerate):From now on, we at SaltWire will refer to what’s happening to our climate as a climate crisis,...
View ArticleOliver's Green Birthday
Oliver turns 19 years old on Tuesday, October 1. As his is tradition, he’s worked out a complex cavalcade of celebration.Oliver’s already raised $300, all on his own, on Facebook, for the Alzheimer’s...
View ArticleSubscribing to Everything a Publisher Publishes
Many years ago I found myself in Boston with Catherine Hennessey and we found our way to the New England Mobile Book Fair, which is, despite its name, neither mobile nor a fair, but rather an excellent...
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100 metres and 19 years later
About 100 metres east of Catherine’s room in Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the room where Oliver was born, 19 years ago today. Happenstance, thus, took us back to the beginning, as we gathered this...
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Where PEI Public Servants Live and Work (and can we get them to leave their...
In early September I made a Freedom of Information access request to the PEI Public Service Commission for:A spreadsheet providing the postal code of the home address of each employee of the PEI public...
View ArticleLet's stop diminishing women in our political debates...
Conservative Party candidate Robert Campbell, in The Guardian/UPEISU debate on Tuesday:I’ve been talking to students. You talk to these young ladies right over here that I talked to last week. And the...
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Purity Dairy has a Bicycle Rack
Remember the City of Charlottetown bicycle rack incentive program? It’s starting to bear fruit: I was happy to see that our friends at Purity Dairy took me up on my suggestion they install one:Here’s...
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Darcie Lanthier for Charlottetown
I made the decision to vote for Darcie Lanthier on July 15 at 8:15 p.m.I was sitting on a rickety set of wooden stairs on the side of Riverside Drive. This was my view:I was in the middle of a...
View ArticleStoic Week
Thelma does Stoic Week:My life as a carer means I need to also take care of myself, but that’s not something I or most other carers do well. Stoic Week is a short burst of study and practice that helps...
View ArticleWhen Harry Met Ellinor
Detective Harry Holman and the Case of the Mystery Yacht:We are left with a three-masted steam yacht with no name. What was it and what was it doing in Charlottetown Harbour?Harry HolmanHistory
View ArticleIf I Only Had a Brain
At the federal candidates forum on environmental issues on October 3, 2019 at the University PEI, here’s what Liberal incumbent Sean Casey finished with (emphasis mine):I want to talk now to...
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Danishes and Toilet Paper
The temporary death of our refrigerator (it died completely; then, after a 12 hour rest and defrost, sprang back to life) resulted in a lot of spoiled food (sigh) and an opportunity to really clean out...
View ArticleCycle Cycle Cycle
Oliver and I have now been bicycling to the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market every Saturday for two months.Since we began in August, quite literally from a standing start, the weather has turned cool and...
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Our Happy Life
From my friend Vivian comes a pointer to Our Happy Life, an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture that closes this week:The exhibition Our Happy Life is a three-act study on the new...
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Headlines Disappearing to Almost Nothing at the CBC
A couple of years ago I wrote about how the CBC was A/B testing different headlines on its local news website. They’re back at it again today, testing the headlines “P.E.I. plastic bag recycling cut...
View Article"Even a light wind sounds like someone’s ripped your mic in half..."
waterstreetfence.mp3Ten top simple field recording tips from Cities and Memory; includes:You might think that’s only a gentle breeze, and it can’t possibly do anything to your recording, but IT WILL....
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