"Coffee Means Go, Tea Means Stop"
My latest post for the Lady Baker’s Tea blog, Coffee Means Go, Tea Means Stop.
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Overheight Must Turn is a documentary about a low-clearance train bridge in Durham, North Carolina and the trucks that run into it (a cavalcade of which you can see on the 11foot8 YouTube channel)...
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How a hotel discount taught me about public pension investing
I am here in Memorial Hall at Confederation Centre of the Arts this morning for one of the biennial public meetings of the CPP Investment Board, the agency that invests Canadians’ public pension...
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What we can learn from the stickers, pockets and labels on a library book?
After seeing Laurie Brown’s live Pondercast in Wolfville in October, I became curious about whether she’d ever written a book, and this curiosity led me to her 1994 Success without College: Days and...
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Victoria has Fallen Silent for Winter
Every Saturday afternoon Oliver and I drive out to Crapaud so that he can spend 90 minutes working with Jennifer Brown, his excellent art teacher.As Crapaud is 35 minutes drive from our house, it...
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Oliver on the Roof of the Duomo
Oliver rambling about the roof of the Duomo in Milan when he was 7 years old. It was an ethereal autumn day: crisp, bright, and foggy. On a remarkable building.
View ArticleAre we Citizens or Consumers?
In Political Studies class this week, Oliver is learning about the differences between the economics spectrum and the political spectrum. This post from Stephanie Booth was a good jumping off point for...
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Radar O'Reilly
How did I not notice this URL before, an homage to one of the great television characters of all time.O’Reilly Radar is now O’Reilly Ideas, which is way, way less fun.O'Reilly | M*A*S*H
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We Have a New Roof
Because this autumn wasn’t already exciting enough, fates connived to cause our roof to start leaking last month. We got by with a temporary patch job and a fleet of buckets in the attic, but the fall...
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The Story of that IKEA Photograph of Amsterdam
This documentary short tells the sad and yet somehow delightful story of the famous IKEA photograph of Amsterdam that appears on walls all around the world.Filmmaker Tom Roes tracked down the brother...
View ArticleHow much carbon dioxide do we emit on our daily school run?
Every morning during the school year I drive Oliver from our house to Colonel Gray Senior High School, a distance of 1.74 km one-way.Oliver sent me a link to Mission Emission this morning, a calculator...
View ArticleAutism Secretariat Act
The Guardianpublished a guest opinion piece I wrote on The Autism Secretariat Act, which received first reading in the Legislative Assembly this week.This bill is a reasonable and straightforward call...
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Kutina's One Minute and Twenty One Seconds in The Little Drummer Girl
My father’s father was born in Konjsko Brdo, Croatia in 1903; he left for Canada in 1926, and sometime after that my great-grandfather’s family relocated to Dišnik, in northeastern Croatia, a village...
View ArticleThe Spanish Prisoner
The Spanish Prisoner, David Mamet’s 1998 film, remains one of my favourites. The movie has a stellar cast that includes Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara, Felicity Huffman and...
View ArticleAutism Secretariat Act Debated Tonight
The Autism Secretariat Act will be debated tonight on the floor of the Legislative Assembly. I’ve been invited by MLA Sidney MacEwen, who put forward the bill, to join him on the floor as a “stranger”...
View ArticleAutism Coordination Act
Below are the formal remarks I made this evening on the floor of the Legislative Assembly regarding the Autism Secretariat Act.There were friendly amendments to the bill adopted this evening during the...
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Welcoming New Ideas
It’s not clear whether it’s the Crapaud Community Hall that’s welcoming new ideas, or the Village of Crapaud itself. Regardless, I appreciate the sentiment.Crapaud
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Brookvale Demonstration Woodlot
If you’re looking for a weekend activity in the outdoors, a winter walk in the woods at the Brookvale Demonstration Woodlot can’t be beat. The main trail is groomed and very walkable, and the trail is...
View ArticleGHG.EARTH
GHG.EARTH from William Denton is…a sonification of the most recent atmospheric CO₂ reading at Mauna Loa in Hawaii at the observatory run by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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"I'm tired, and I'm cold, and I can't see the bus..."
Eight years ago today we found ourselves on Via Ca’ di Marcello, a deserted side street in Mestre, the landward side of Venice, waiting for the bus to Bulgaria.We were midway through a late fall...
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