Pull it together, Ontario
True to form (which is to say, consistently formless and unpredictable) the Ontario government on Friday announced restaurants and bars could open their patios. With no warning. First of all, […]
Category Archives: News
Begone, 45
I should have more to say about the US election. I just don’t have it in me. And, truth be told, ever since I read this Atlantic article (published pre-election) […]
Beautiful News Daily
Whilst they’re taking a bit of a pause right now, this account has been one of the few bright spots in my feeds during this overall trash bag of a […]
Portapique: an independent panel isn’t good enough [UPDATE: a public inquiry will proceed.]
After three months, there will finally be an investigation into the April mass shooting which started in Portapique, NS. Unfortunately, it likely won’t go far enough. Despite the specific requests […]
The News
Growing up we had at least three (maybe more?) newspaper subscriptions. We got the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the Amherst Daily News, and the local weekly, the Citizen. This last is obviously […]
COVID-19: Part the Last (for now)
So yeah: not to jinx anything, but just as life is slowly returning to a semblance of normal, so shall my posts. Or at least my post titles. Patios are […]
COVID-19: Part the Fifteenth
Let’s see: what happened this week in my little box? I worked. We played more Pandemic: Legacy. I won a Lauren Pelc-McArthur painting. The Constantines released a new song; Bob […]
COVID-19: Part the Fourteenth
My mood and psyche were somewhat better this week. The news was no better, with what’s happening in the US and video of Indigenous people being murdered and clotheslined across […]
COVID-19: Part the Thirteenth
Hard week. Hard to focus on work, or deal with the work load. Hard to watch the news or read Twitter. BUT. But. The part of me that gets excited […]
COVID-19: Part the Twelfth
The week started with a upward turn — 2020 jumping straight from Winter to Summer in Toronto, though I’m sad that Spring 2020 seems never to have existed — but […]
