PEI's Newly Progressive Liquor Regulations
For someone like me, who’s as close to being a non-drinker as one can be (to the point where, when I answer the “lifestyle” questions from pollsters, they don’t believe my answers: “what do you mean...
View ArticleIs "an adult vibe" a compelling justification for age discrimination?
Since writing about PEI’s newly progressive liquor regulations yesterday, I’ve had private communications with two licensed establishments that have historically used the excuse of liquor license...
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An Index for the Charlottetown Fire Insurance Maps
The Charlottetown Fire Insurance Maps are one of the most delightful elements of the Island Imagined collection of digitized images, but the interface for navigating them there doesn’t lend itself to...
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Πέτρος
How has the synchronicity of my recent obsession with boulders and the meaning of my first name not dawned on me until now?Petros (Greek: Πέτρος; Coptic: ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ) is the original Greek and Coptic...
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Farmers' Market Moves
Lots happening at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market these days.With the departure of Ross Munro’s salmon bagel stand, Angelika’s German Bakery is moving into their spot by the front door. This, in...
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The Interconnectedness of Charlottetown Coffee and Tea
This is the kind of rabbit hole that Sunday afternoons in the office are very good for.I started to think about Ampersand, Charlottetown’s prototypical third-wave coffee place; when Ampersand closed,...
View Article"It is worth a man’s life to see this place"
Leading up to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the Clyde River blog has started posting a series of letters home from the war from former Clyde River resident Lee Grant Darrach, under...
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The Johns Hamilton Gray
Rob MacDonald’s new series, Take A Break with The Johns Hamilton Gray is my new favourite show.For the uninitiated, John Hamilton Gray and John Hamilton Gray were both Fathers of Confederation; statues...
View ArticleTodo por América
Wayne Bernhardson, who splits his time between California and South America, writes about a happenstance encounter in Oakland with a couple driving overland from Ushuaia to Alaska:Eduardo and Emilia,...
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Boulder Park Brochure Holders
After having 500 copies of the Charlottetown Boulder Park brochure printed, I needed places to put them.I left about 50 with the office of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly for placement inside the...
View ArticleThe Other Side of FOIPP Mountain
In a blog post this morning, Green Party of PEI leader Peter Bevan-Baker writes of his party’s struggles with trying to get information about freedom of information. He writes, in part:Several months...
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Cowplay
Late in the evening, after the tourists have disappeared, the COWS cow is let off its bolts and allowed to wander.COWS | Charlottetown | Waterfront | Photo
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Three Heads
Oliver, me, and my brother Mike, each easily identifiable by our head shape, in a mirror at dusk at the PEI Preserve Company last night.Oliver | Mike Rukavina | Photo
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Horseperson Entrance
Oliver and I got into a debate this morning as to whether this is an entrance for centaurs or simply an entrance for those who work with horses.I got as far as getting him to concede that if my...
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Flooded
It rained for hours and hours and hours today here in Charlottetown and this made it impossible to ignore a couple of leaks in our 18 year old roof. I spent a good part of the day moving buckets around...
View ArticleCharlottetown's Outdoor Pianos
There are two public outdoor pianos in Charlottetown.One of them is at the foot of Queen Street, under the eaves of the Charlottetown Tide Station. It was placed there by Downtown Charlottetown as an...
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Pen Night in Charlottetown
My friend Mark, upon learning that I fancied the odd fountain pen, suggested I consider attending “Pen Night,” an irregular gathering of pen afficianados held at The Bookmark bookstore in...
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On The Road Again
Oliver and I haven’t traveled internationally together, alone since 2013 when we went to Tokyo when he was 12 years old.Now he is 17, going on 18, and a burgeoning young adult, and we are off to Europe...
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Airport Security: The Continuing Saga
If you’re just joining us, this is a story that started back in 2016 with a rather stressful airport security experience in Toronto–the mother of all bad airport security experiences, you might say. So...
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Arrived Malmö
After a long day(s) of travel, we arrived in Malmö yesterday around supper, by train from Copenhagen Airport.By putting our jetlagged heads together we managed to find our Airbnb, a convenient 20...
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