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With interest this afternoon I watched an exchange between several progressive bloggers that devolved into a boycott of an aggregator site because a couple of bloggers took issue with two posts, made by men, on the subject of abortion.  Other than offering encouraging words to the site’s administrator, I stayed

Hey everybody, I’ve got a lot to do the next few weeks but I managed to steal five minutes to register a domain for my life after Mount Allison. It’s a little tough and non-sensical to rename everything so I’ve decided to start anew. The new, blank website is http://geoffcampbell.me/. Once

In the last couple of years, various Canadian commentators have remarked on the new conservative narrative of Canada that Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives have been creating. Much of this narrative centres around a new form of patriotism that emphasizes support for the military, the Canadian North, hockey and

Trayvon Martin’s brutal, and senseless, death shook me to my very core. I didn’t know him. But, oddly, I feel like Trayvon Martin lives with me. I say good night to him each evening, tell him I love him excessively, hug him and feed him home made French Toast –

It’s a little crazy but in 18 days I’ll be done with my undergraduate education. Today I finished up my involvement with ATLIS by handing the login information and giving a brief overview of job functions to my successor. I also finished up the research for my last major term

I’m well stuck into what I hope is my last draft of my next novel, and I thought I’d share the occasional quotation from the book: The sirens were an old technology, originally invented so that everyone knew it was … Continue reading →

The Ontario Federation of Labour had a poll done which revealed that “Ontarians from every riding in the province are solidly opposed to the unfairness of (Premier Dalton) McGuinty’s budget and they are ready to go back to the polls to demand fair taxation.” Their interpretation of the results, however,

When Danielle Smith smugly surmised that Alison Redford didn’t even like Alberta, I thought we might have hit a low point in the provincial election — and in less than a week! Then, just a couple of days later, a new low point. I can’t picture going much lower than

Last night’s earnings report from RIM brought more bad news, even prompting BGR into a sensationalist headline of Research In Motion is dead. The comments in response to the BGR article are interesting to read, most tending towards a sentiment of “Why are you saying this, don’t you know you’re affecting

Recently, I was seated next to an acquaintance at a fundraising dinner, and somehow the conversation turned to feminism. His point: Men, not women, are the gender discriminated against in modern culture. Lively debate ensued. Obviously. The statement below represents my personal feminist beliefs. Click on the link for just