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January 03, 2010 10:17 PM EST --
- Back to the Geographer's Corner -
(#3) This weekend I got a fair bit of British television. I've been a Doctor Who fan since the late seventies, when I was in high school: during the incarnation . . .
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January 01, 2010 11:15 PM EST --
- Back to the Geographer's Corner -
(#2) I was born in Toronto, Canada: I lived my early life in what has been called “the Jane-Finch corridor” and went to a high school that was well . . .
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January 01, 2010 04:19 PM EST --
- Back to the Geographer's Corner -
(#1) I like beginning a new time period... any time period. A new day, a new week: sometimes I even enjoy celebrating new moons (28 day cycles based on the phases . . .
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December 15, 2009 10:22 PM EST --
The tradition from Britain, that I grew up with: you decorate the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, and leave it up for the 12 days of Christmas (until Epiphany) on January 6 th . The American tradition: . . .
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December 13, 2009 12:10 PM EST --
No, this is not about my accident.
This is not specifically about December, either, but in fact is a story that is a couple of months old. Yet I am reminded about it every day, walking home. Being a . . .
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December 12, 2009 11:10 PM EST --
Some of you may remember a few months ago I published a piece that I was intending to submit to the Ontario Public Service (OPS) Price Network (otherwise known as the OPN), applying to be on their Speakers' . . .
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December 12, 2009 10:00 PM EST --
I had a conversation with one of my friends recently, while we were doing something for work: when I was growing up it was a sign of politeness/respect to hold the door open for women. If I remember . . .
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December 09, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
This year has been unique for Toronto. This was the first November that there has been no accumulation of snowfall since records starting being kept in 1937. Even though I remember as a kid that there . . .
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December 09, 2009 08:22 PM EST --
We can't be prolific and thought provoking every day in December. Or maybe we can be: but a little bit differently day to day. Besides, chocolate is one of those things that is thought provoking just . . .
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December 07, 2009 10:29 PM EST --
December 6 th in Canada is our “National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women" . It is the anniversary of the day that a 25-year old man walked in to the École Polytechnique . . .
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December 06, 2009 03:01 PM EST --
This isn't really really something specific to Toronto: but we do live in the city and Tim is particularly happy with his Christmas Cactus this year. Generally we've only had one or two blooms for the . . .
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December 06, 2009 02:40 PM EST --
I have been planning on writing something about our weekly Saturday grocery trips for some time. After all, grocery and food are the most consistent costs in our lives: one of those that we must spend . . .
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December 06, 2009 10:45 AM EST --
Most people who have read much of my work will be aware of my difficulties with health care over the years: or at least my experiences. They have generally not been bad, other than my need . . .
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December 06, 2009 10:16 AM EST --
Many people are surprised that I am involved with gay rodeo; some seem to be downright offended by what they see as an “abusive spectacle” and actions toward the non-human participants. . . .
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December 03, 2009 06:32 AM EST --
Apparently this is going to be one of the last times that the Dead Sea Scrolls are sent to other parts of the world to be viewed and experienced; I was thus very glad to have the opportunity to see . . .
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December 02, 2009 04:49 AM EST --
As many of you know, I live in Toronto: a city many Canadians (usually not the residents) refer to sarcastically as, “The Centre of the Universe”. I grew up in the city, left for twenty-odd . . .
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December 02, 2009 04:13 AM EST --
December 1st is World AIDS Day. It's been a “day” since 1987, when it was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring light to the difficulties associated with living with . . .
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November 11, 2009 05:29 PM EST --
I was all set to write something inspiring and reflective today (well, inspiring to me, anyway) in commemoration of today as Remembrance Day (I believe it it Veteran's Day in the States). But instead, . . .
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November 01, 2009 02:55 PM EST --
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended last night (Nov. 1 2009) in Canada and the U.S. It ended last week (Oct. 25, 2009) in most of Europe (where it is also known as Summer Time).
DST used to be the . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:18 PM EDT --
The Ontario Public Service "Pride Network" is trying to establish a “Speaker's Bureau”: people who would go out and speak about their experience being gay in the province. I expressed some . . .
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