Last week, Councillor Keith Hull gave a notice of motion that read, “THAT Council of the Town of Collingwood herein petitions the Province of Ontario, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to change legislation to permit …
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The Mumpsimus Blog site Community Blog List: The Mumpsimus Blog – Vintage ukulele music site online
Finally finished my site for vintage ukulele music, a place where I can write a bit about the music, composers and performers from the 1920s and 30s. And it’s a place where I can show off (and sell) my collection of song sheets and song books scanned t…
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I haven’t blogged much about local politics over these first six months of this term. That’s because:
In general, it’s been uneventful;
In general, everyone’s been respectful;
In general, we resolve our differences without rancor or animosity;
In gener…
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There’s a front page story in this week’s Enterprise Bulletin about self-professed ghost hunters looking for a “haunted” house in Collingwood to feature on a new TV series called “Paranormal House Inspection.” That really bothered me because it reads l…
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Apparently the world will end on October 21, 2011. That’s exactly five months after the “rapture”, which takes place this month on May 21, when, the site says, Jesus will arrive for his third official visit to this planet.* Judgment Day, apparently, is…
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I’ve been reading James Coleman’s excellent book, The New Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2001) of late. Subtitled, The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition, it chronicles the many threads of Buddhism on its complex journey into Western cu…
Continue readingThe Mumpsimus Blog site Community Blog List: The Mumpsimus Blog – Election results for 2011
Conservative: 167 (majority and a stunning win, 39.6% of the popular vote)
NDP: 102 (now the official opposition for the 1st time, 30.6% of the popular vote)
Liberal: 34 (a huge drop and a crushing defeat for Ignatieff and the Libs; 18.9%)
Bloc Quebeco…
The Mumpsimus Blog site Community Blog List: The Mumpsimus Blog – The clattering keys grow silent as the curtain falls
The typewriter is dead. That news didn’t surprise me, but it certainly saddened me.
The clatter of typewriter keys was sweet music to my ears, when I was much younger. I remember banging out stories and poems on my grandfather’s ancient Underwood, wat…
Continue readingThe Mumpsimus Blog site Community Blog List: The Mumpsimus Blog – Creationist victory a sad day for American education
It’s pretty easy to make fun of American education these days. There are viral videos on YouTube that paint a bleak, even frightening, picture of the average American unable to locate Iraq on a world map, unable to identify the name of a country beginn…
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