Sign Language Interpretation Now
When the PEI Council of People with Disabilities advises government of the utility of having sign language interpretation of government pandemic briefings, the correct response is to immediately secure...
View ArticleFolk On Foot Front Room Festival
Coming up on Monday, April 13, 2020, the Folk On Foot Front Room Festival:Help us to stage an amazing virtual folk festival on Easter Bank Holiday Monday – and support musicians who’ve lost their...
View ArticlePaper House
From an essay by Corinne Duval in Belt:This could have been a love story, if he was a better man and it wasn’t the Rust Belt. But I ended it—ended us—and he demanded the house. I could have fought for...
View Article"Peter an angel. Flew back."
The first big trip I took apart from my parents and my brothers was to Thunder Bay with my grandmother Nettie, from August 19 to 26, 1971. She had been born there, in Fort William, as had my father, so...
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When a wrong number makes your heart beat faster...
And then they ask “Hello, is Michelle there?” and it all falls apart.
View ArticleOn The Belong Podcast
When my friend Cynthia launched her podcast on belonging last month, something told me that I had something to contribute.Find out whether I was right.Cynthia KingThe Belong Podcast
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Film Locations in Charlottetown
These two photos were taken in essentially the same place from the same perspective, off Water Street near the Marine Terminal on the Charlottetown waterfront. The first I took yesterday; the second in...
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Add "seniors" and "amazing" and see your traffic shoot through the roof!
Time to dust off the old CBC Prince Edward Island Headline Testing machine again, as I noticed they were running a showdown between “Islanders mobilizing to make masks for seniors’ caregivers ‘nothing...
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How to make a Newsletter for your Postal Code
A couple of years ago I got interested in learning more about postal codes and, specifically, ours: C1A 4R4.That C1A 4R4 applies to only 24 households stuck in my mind as a thing I could hang my hat on...
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"Gorgeousness is important..."
An interview with Chef Yuta Funaoka, who opened a new restaurant in Osaka weeks before the lockdown, and is now serving inexpensive ¥1200 takeout with local ingredients.Yuka...
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13 Years Ago Today
The “X years ago today” feature of Google Photos almost makes entrusting care of my photos to Google worth it. Especially on days like today.OliverCoverallsBlueGoogle Photos
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Saving Catherine's Text Messages
Grief is a journey. And in parallel to that journey are the myriad practical acts of unbundling from another’s life, and of shutting down or attending to the practical tools they once used.Figuring out...
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How can I get Better Sound for Videoconferences?
microphone_compare.mp3In this brave new world we’re all jacked into Zoom (or, maybe, Jitsi) all day long. We’ve been at this for a month, and it’s remarkable how little most of us continue to pay...
View ArticleTwo Pandemic Takes
My friend Cindy, in an opinion piece the the Regina Leader-Post, Organizing in hard times serves the betterment of community:Although individualism might help us stay at home alone and learn a new...
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Downtown Charlottetown without the Automobile
In our neighbourhood, the most obvious sign that we’re all locked inside our houses due the pandemic is that there haven’t been any cars parked on Prince Street for weeks.On a typical Friday afternoon,...
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The Pandemic, Climate Change, and the Parking Garage
On our walk to the waterfront yesterday we noticed that the parking garage at the Delta Prince Edward hotel is now protected with a semi-permanent barrier of sandbagsThe hotel is closed indefinitely...
View Article"Hold your horses, bucko..."
My time-between-grocery-store-visits increased from 10 days (between this visit and this one) to 14 days, with a visit to Sobeys this morning.Friday morning turned out to be a pretty good time to...
View ArticlePen Night in the Clouds, Mark II
We’re holding the monthly Pen Night, for fountain pen aficionados, virtually again this month. The March meeting turned out to be a pleasant surprise, given how horrible Zoom-meetings can be, and so...
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Inside Palliative Care
Part of the hold that the process of dying has on us is that we shy from talking about it, sharing images of it. It remains, thus, a more powerful, frightening mystery than it need be.Looking through...
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