Tonight marked the return of the annual Garden Party for Liberal MPs and assistants the grounds of 24 Sussex Drive after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Without the recently COVID-positive Prime Minister, sadly, disapointing a generation of post-pandemic young staffers who won’t be able to update their Facebook profiles tomorrow with
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Scripturient: Montaigne on Ice Cream
No, Michel de Montaigne did not write about ice cream. I just used his name to entice you into this musing. But given the wide variety of topics he did write about, you’d think he might have at least penned a few words on it. Had it been available in his
Continue readingA BCer in Ottawa: Eating OFF the Hill: Day deux in Quebec City
Slept in and got a slow start Wednesday — because I’m on vacation, y’all. But once I hopped the bus downtown and walked through the St. Jean gate, it was straight to Café-Boulangerie Paillard, recommended by several as an important stop for baked goodies. Café-Boulangerie Paillard I managed to navigate
Continue readingThings Are Good: You Can Now Eat Climate Data
Ice cream is delicious and now you can eat a brand new flavour of it made of climate data. Well, it’s more like existing flavours put together to symbolize data about our climate and how it’s changing. Jonathon Keats is the brain behind the project and he’s mixing the ice
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Do I Owe Lorne Gunter An Ice Cream Cone?
Maybe. Got this email from officer Ian Shardlow this morning: The estimates that I have received is that we destroyed approximately 3-4000 lbs of ammo and now have approximately 2-3000 lbs in our possession for destruction. We had enough ammo in the first instance that we had to arrange for
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