Champlain lookout – 57km, 2 hours 15 minutes
My first ride up to Champlain lookout this year. A gorgeous evening and the parkway was just clogged with riders. I really liked seeing all the people out on bikes.
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I really hope the Tori Stafford trial is over soon
So I can stop wincing at the sight of a news website. It’s the closest I’ve come to puking while reading a web page.
Field of galls
Feeling a little non-verbal these days. So here, have a picture. Not a great one, but it’ll have to do.
Hide and seek, albino deer, forty year old plywood
In mid family weekend at the farm. I would extract some pictures from the camera but I’m too tired. The day’s been about playing hide and seek, spotting the famous…
How far can you go in a day
Another canoe tripping question. Trip planning is fun but there’s too many variables, I tell you. And if you’re travelling in one of Ontario’s managed parks, it matters how far…
Do you drink the water in Algonquin Park?
I got an email from someone planning a trip to Algonquin Park this spring and he posed me the question. It’s a good one. And while I hasten to add…
Topographic Maps Canada – an app that puts all Canada’s topos on your iPhone or iPad
I’m someone who likes to hang out in bars and talk about where to paddle a canoe. It doesn’t happen that often but I’m forever bringing maps along which is…
The pre-reading bookworm
Irene picked up a bunch of ‘chapter books’ aimed mostly at grade school kids from Boomerang Kids on Friday. Apart from demonstrating impeccable taste in child literature, Irene also demonstrate…
Ashton – 87.87km
A sunny chilly day for a ride. Shorts, tights, overbooties, shirt, mid-layer, windbreaker, light gloves, nothing under the helmet. The route was a bit of an experiment. I’ve gone out…
The federal budget: spite and bile to pump up the base
So it turns out all the nasty rumours were actually true.
Cut staff but not services? That’s unpossible
Now when I was a journalist, if someone made an assertion as daft as the one above, I would have left it out of the story just because it made…
Gee wilikers but if you call that a balanced approach to defict reduction
I suspect you have a hard time standing upright. The McGuinty government released its budget and just so that they could put “everyone will feel some pain” in their talking…
So I think I’ll write about the weather
Because there’s too much depressing stuff going on. Which isn’t to say that snow flurries tomorrow evening isn’t depressing enough. But at least there’s nothing to be done about it.
Dirty hospitals: horror shows about cleaning, cutbacks and privatization
CBC Marketplace has a really compelling exposé of the effects of cutbacks to and privatization of hospital cleaning. Astounding. Cleaners who used to have responsibility for one floor now cleaning…
I admit I was not very excited
About Thomas Mulcair’s victory tonight. But then I read this.
Pageantry and democracy
I expect a lot of my friends are in Toronto, being part of choosing the next NDP leader. I was following the theatre and speeches of the seven candidates on…
Yay Québec students – continuons le combat
I went to university in Québec in the mid to late 1980s. At the time university tuition fees were frozen at around $570 per year for undergraduate arts. How wierd…
So we still have a land line
Apparently to turn your phone line into a dry loop, a technician has to actually come to your house. And do what I don’t know. It would have been great…
Don Drummond, meet Hugh Mackenzie
Then take your stupid report and chuck it. The CCPA has published a new hunk of PDF by economist Hugh Mackenzie which slices and dices the Drummond report’s fiscal forecast…
The Swan, 60km, 2 hours, average speed 29.1km/h
A beautiful sunny afternoon, the wind mostly coming across or at my back.