So, at the risk of identifying myself (which I’ve basically stopped caring about), I’d like to take a moment to honour a very, very good friend of mine who passed away on December 21st. Kaylin was an incredibly smart, articulate person who had a wealth of passion and energy when
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Nominated for the 2012 Ninjamatics Canadian Weblog Awards!
Whoo-hoo! Now I have some inspiration to start cranking out some good posts 😉 I’ve gotta get up to date on my activism… If you want to read the rest, come on over to the site to read it!
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So, because I’m such a tech-geek at heart, I finally set up my very own server in my bedroom! It’s an Apache server (for those of you that know the lingo) and it’s a very cool package – it comes with MySQL, PHPNuke, phpMyAdmin, and a bunch of other cool
Continue readingOlivia Chow as Toronto mayor?
God, weren’t we all thankful when we heard Rob Ford was finally given the boot? (Let’s hope it stays that way, anyway). Of course, before his appeal has even really begun, people (the media) have been speculating on his replacements. Many names hav…
Continue readingThings are a-brewin’
Well, even though I haven’t been directly involved in activism for a while, there’s a huge number of people who haven’t slowed down a bit. They’ve created a group called CSCS Ottawa (Committee for Safer Consumption Sites Ottawa) and they’ve b…
Continue readingObama wins! Marijuana legalized?!?!
(On a quick side note, I’m going to start breaking up my posts into the different topics in the title, using red headings, as seen below – ‘Fiscal Cliff and American Political System’ – to make it easier for people to find what they really want…
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So, in the swing of things again, I’m trying out new blogging software. Not that I’ve ever had issues here on Blogger (formerly Blogspot) but because it came with my Windows Live! download and it was the only piece of software that looked interesting. It automatically self-configured, so as I
Continue readingReturn from not writing! Methadone!
So I know it’s been a long time, and probably nobody will read this. However I wanted to update what’s been going on in my life. I was always skeptical of methadone. I swore I would never go on it, because everyone I know who is on it has warned
Continue readingUpdate, finally!
So the Conservatives are finally starting to have fun with their majority. We all knew this day would come — when we would be forced to helplessly sit at the sidelines and watch while these idiots we call ‘representatives’ shove through legislation so…
Continue readingHelp save the CBC!
So I’m not too happy to announce that nothing really that interesting has been happening in my life recently. I haven’t been working with YSB for a while, and I’m no longer on the CSSDP’s advisory board (as far as I know, anyway) because I couldn’t mak…
Continue readingGun safety and registry!
What with all the hoo-ha over the gun registry recently, I wanted to put my two cents in. I got in a Facebook argument with someone I don’t even know, and I was a little nervous that I might be wrong. I mean, I’m not used to being wrong — I’m pre…
Continue readingCan’t afford no cheap thrills!
I’ve been reading a lot in the past couple of weeks. When I was a lot younger, I think maybe 12 or 13, my uncle and his partnet gave me a stack of books by this author, Wilbur Smith. You may have heard of him — he’s more well-known than I thought…
Continue readingElection time approaches!
I used to enjoy reading about politics. In high school, when I was just developing a conciousness about politics, I used to find the littlest, most menial government tasks absolutely fascinating, and I would exuberantly encourage my peers to read about…
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So, my loyal readers, I’m sure that you’ve all been keeping up to date on the activities. Well, the police went overboard (like I predicted) and brutalized SO many people. My girlfriend was part of the group that got boxed in on Queen and Spadina on Su…
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So I just spent an AMAZING ten days in Toronto. We had a Drug User Groups summit and we officially created the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD). We wrote our mission statement etc. and got everything underway. The overarching goal o…
Continue readingHarm Reduction Superheroes!
So last Thursday I did a panel speech and presented a workshop at YSB’s forum. It was called Building Bridges and it focused on youth ‘in transition’ from youth to adulthood and how we can better support them.Oh yeah, on a side note, things with Kristy…
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So I was having a really crappy today and yesterday. I spiked my opiate tolerance by using a LOT of Dilaudids, and man did I ever come down sideways when I started to use less. I mean, I was dopesick even before I tried to go to sleep last night, and w…
Continue readingThe most loneliest day of my life…
I’m seriously sick of having these court conditions hanging over my head. My dad was on the verge of calling in a breach last night and I told him to just fucking do it. Honestly, I know that I’m not going to last until July 15th without SOMETHING goin…
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So hey. I apologize again for the shabby posting as of late, but here’s the reason:Yes, that’s right, a girl! Can you believe it? I know, you’ve been there with me through a couple of them now! But for real — this one could be the one. And I really me…
Continue readingBiking around town! Sorry folks.
[edit: I just noticed that I passed 1000 hits! Thank you everyone for reading my blog! I feel so special!]Hey OFDSU devotees -I’m sorry that my posting has been so erratic lately. To be honest I haven’t really had any good topics to write about and I d…
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