In June 1990, only a few months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he came to Canada to thank Canadians for their support in the fight against apartheid. This…
Today I started working through the photos and began transcribing the pages and pages of notes that I took on my trip (No laptop when I travel: it’s just one…
Lee’s holding down the fort, the freezer is full of suppers, tomorrow I’ll water the plants, and then I’m off. I’ll be back in about two weeks with pictures of…
Because I’m heading South on Friday, here’s a little preview:
So tonight it’s out to Pointe Claire on Montreal’s West Island to celebrate Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography. Should be fun!
Yes, I know that we are not to forget the Great War and the other ones because we don’t want to repeat earlier mistakes. That at least is the official…
My friend Jack Ruttan took this at the launch of Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography last Wednesday. It was a good party! We’ll have another good time on…
In the 45 years I’ve lived in Montreal, there has always been snow before Nov. 8 and the leaves have been swept from the trees. Not so this year, which…
Sold out! Every single copy of Desire Lines went out the door last night at the Montreal launch in Librairie Drawn and Quaterly. Thanks to all the friends who came…
Be there or be square! Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore, 7 p.m. 211 Bernard West, Montreal
This morning Le Devoir has turned over the entire paper to cartoonists. The occasion is the opening of a new show of graphic illustration at the Musée des Beaux arts…
Another one of the photos behind Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Desire. This is Sara Elisabeth Morea at the time that she married Carl Linnaeus. Not such a pretty…
Ordinarily I use only pictures that I’ve taken for this feature, but today I’m pirating (well not really, they’re bot WikiCommons pix) two photos taken by other people as the…
And there is singing and dancing chez les Soderstrom! Lee, who hadn’t seen the cover, says, somewhat hopefully, that maybe it will be considered pornographic and will sell well. I…
Just in case you’re looking for a little light literature, here’s a link to a story I revised and read last night at the Drawn and Quaterly Haunted Bookstore event:…
Maclean’s blogger Aaron Wherry quotes from Hansard today. He says that Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra likened the Senate expense scandal to stealing from a pizza shop till, but…
Elin and Emmanuel were in Winnipeg over the weekend, taking part in the activities commemorating the 275th anniversary of Fort Rouge and the French presence in Manitoba. This meant that…
This morning we turned the furnace on and when I went out walking it was shiveringly cold. I think that fall is finally upon us, and winter is not far…
Corruption, integrity, and transport are all being mentioned a lot as the Montreal municipal election winds toward its close, Nov. 3. But I’d like to hear a lot more talk…
