The Kelvin CC Comeback: How Do I Feel?
It’s good. Yeah. But it feels strange. We spent years fighting to keep Kelvin Community Centre open, and then the community spent a few more years after that trying to…
October 2012
Geoff Campbell, storified
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Buckle fracture
Last Tuesday Mallory fell off a play structure at school when another kid slammed into her. She came home complaining of arm pain and when it was clear that it…
Read this
I’ve been hearing about this all day, and now I’ve finally read it. You will remember it for a long time. I hope Ann Coulter does.
Pharmaceutical billionaire Daryl Katz gave $430,000 to PC Party, Globe & Mail reports.
TweetI am still processing this news and will have more to say soon. In the meantime, kudos to Globe & Mail reporters David Ebner and Dawn Walton for digging this…
Even if you have seen this before, it still will make you smile.
This really is special. Enjoy.
Exchange Rates, the Price of Oil and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel
This is a guest post by Paul Tulloch, of LivingWork.ca and frequent commentator on this blog, reporting on some significant and timely work he prepared for the northern gateway pipeline…
By the way, it is perfectly legal to photograph police (but it may not prudent)
The RCMP don't like being photographed. This sounds familiar – RCMP who don't want to be photographed or subject to review. So they demand a photograph be deleted and if…
An Update
With the opening of the legislature today, I expect we’ll see some big developments from the Cam Broten and Trent Wotherspoon campaigns; given that they will be ‘taking the fight’…
5265…President Romney Creating Employment
It does trickle down. Imagine what wonders he will something, something, something when he is elected. God bless him and keep him. WFDS
Groups Call On EPA To Close Fracking Disclosure Loopholes
Seventeen public interest groups, including the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), have petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to close a loophole in U.S. laws that allows hydraulic fracturing operations…
5264…Lowell Green Ain’t Sleeping Tonight
His newspaper, the one he helped found, The Ottawa Sun, reported today that over 20 per cent of Canucks don’t speak English or the dreaded Francais at home. What is…
The Limits of Demography
Here is a piece I wrote for today’s Globe Economy Lab re the Department of Finance report on the costs of an aging society. The key point is that the…
A Handful of Ways to Reduce Poverty
As I was becoming involved with my local Coalition Against Poverty, I found myself surfing the webpages of other poverty reduction groups. The Peterborough Poverty Network has a wonderful poster…
New York Braces for Frankenstorm
New York City is now squarely in the crosshairs of Hurricane Sandy. The NOAA has updated its hurricane track to predict Sandy may slam into the Big Apple on Tuesday…
Ezra, Hate Speech, And Sun TV: Shit That May Or May Not Be Going Down
From Dr. Roy: I was on Sun Tv with Jerry Agar ( replacing Ezra ). From that horrid social networking device know as Twitter: Not sure of the provenance of…
5263…Meanwhile Back In Italy
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is saying ciao to front line politics. The avid hetrosexualist and promoter of women at all levels is 76 and tells the world via…
Responding to Op-Ed Comments
Today’s assignment in PR Writing is to find an organization’s op-ed on a news website and comment on the risks and rewards to the organization in regards to the comment…