The avoidable and useless death of Debbie Hunter
A friend of mine… maybe an acquaintance I respected and felt great pity for, died today just days after being admitted to the hospital in Alexandria. From tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. She…
Gabriel
Little Victor Update | Repetitive cacophony
A few years ago there was an episode of Family Guy called “Stewie Loves Lois”, where Stewie — the family baby who has spent most of his life trying to…
Little Victor Update | Like a fish
We finally took Victor swimming in the Rouge River. There’s a public beach in Quebec right at the place where the Rouge runs into the Ottawa River, so technically Victor…
Little Victor Update | Speed demon
Victor has been walking since April. Every day he gets more confident in his stride, and the motions get less jerky. Unfortunately the confidence is leading him to move at…
The 2011 Liberal Party election results might count as ethnic cleansing
So… that was interesting. I, for one, am blown away at the collective humph to the nuts of the Liberal Party of Canada. It’s about time. The last fourteen years…
Vote Nobody and play the Wendy Mesley drinking game instead
I found this brilliant piece of awesomely cynical graffiti eleven years ago beside a Chinese restaurant in Guelph, Ontario. Just like every election cycle as far back as I can…
The demolition of Vankleek Hill’s high school
Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute (ESVCI), the high school I occasionally attended, sometimes for days in a row, is being slowly and finally demolished. When the school board finally announced Vankleek…
Victor takes his first walk
At the tender age of seventeen months, my son has started to walk. He has taken short steps before, about a month ago he taught himself how to appear to…