I've had four speeding tickets in my life… #1 – I was driving home late at a night from a summer job during college after a week working in northern Saskatchewan. Anxious to get home, I was going pretty fast when an RCMP officer passed me just outside a town on the other site of […]
In the course of talking to the performer I've booked for our Summer Reading Club tour, he mentioned that a colleague, Bonnie Logan, will be appearing in London, ON for a similar tour. I said that there are still quite a few people from London and area reading this blog so if he passed along […]
A MetaFilter thread discussing an essay entitled “Viewing American Class Divisions Through MySpace and Facebook” leads to this interesting nugget: Toronto has the most Facebook members of any city in the world (that's absolute “most”, not even per capita. This means TO outranks much larger cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Canada has […]
In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]
Home from BC and lots of catching up to do in terms of e-mail as well as other domestic chores. Back to work next Tuesday and the two weeks I had off for Pace's birth have passed way too fast, especially with a three-day detour in the middle of it. It was fitting that I […]
Someone on the Hawksley Workman “Papershoes” message board re-posted a review of the Hawksley Workman concert we went to in London last May. Because I’m not a regular contributing member there, I think some of the commenters who had the impression I was a new Hawksley fan attending my first concert of his for some […]
I posted an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut from author Dave Margoshes a couple entries back. In the course of writing to ask permission to do this, I also took the opportunity to ask Dave, who also acts as the food critic with the local Prairie Dog weekly newspaper, if he’d be willing to give me […]
I've always been somebody who enjoyed checking out the libraries in towns and cities I've visited across Canada and around the world. Whether it's a public, academic or other type of library, it's always interesting to see the different designs, layouts and atmospheres they each manage to create. The idea of library tourism was on […]
Buffalo was rare to non-existent from what we could tell in Ontario. One of the specialty meat vendors in the Covent Market Garden told us that this was because Ontario didn't have the land to raise them like we did out west. Made sense to us but if you don't eat a lot of buffalo […]
I was fortunate enough to work with Shirley Dunn when she created this award a few years ago. It began as an award for Calgary and area writers and I remember telling her “It's too bad you can't go province-wide with it – or even beyond – as you'd get a lot more submissions and […]
