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I?m not the only one, I know, but I had Obama picked back in 2004
2008-06-08 03:02:00 As I watched the Democratic Party convention in 2004, during a week when I was hospitalized with a gall bladder attack (pain I will forever associate with John Kerry’s nomination and subsequent campaign!) I wrote this entry scolding Dan Rather and, more importantly, including the written transcript of Barack Obama ’s keynote address, which I now ... More About: Back , Clinton
Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors and Aboriginal Day of Action: For the
2008-05-29 23:36:00 As today’s Day of Action march, from Queen’s Park to Toronto’s waterfront, brings to a close the Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors I am struck by the images and words of grandparents enjoying their rich First Nations culture with grandkids, something residential schools stripped away from them, of course, in their youth. Time and time ... More About: Mother Earth
Join First Nations in demanding respect for indigenous rights
2008-05-26 05:57:00 I hope to see some like-minded friends at Queen’s Park Monday. I’ll be as close as I can get to the northwest corner of the gathering. The week’s tentative schedule is available here. More About: Rights , Nations , Join , Respect , Indigenous
Hillary?s RFK reference needs no comment from campaigns (updated)
2008-05-24 00:30:00 (banner from www.HuffingtonPost.com) Sunday update: Hillary tries to explain herself here (again) and her fans have been quick to spread the word. She still does not understand, perhaps because this is not the first time she has spoken about this (and in this way), why people might be offended! At the very least, Clinton wants Obama’s hopes ... More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Keith Olbermann , Reference
Roman Catholic hierarchy cuts off Pope?s nose to spite his face - cue Monty
2008-05-22 20:49:00 Jim Loney needs no more effective publicist, for the broad spectrum of social justice issues he cares about so much, as long as the Roman Catholic Church and ‘her’ operatives carry his water and are so hung up about his sexual orientation. Last week Jim gave a characteristically impassioned speech at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre after the ... More About: Face , Nose , Pope
Meanwhile, in Toronto, the book was released?
2008-05-13 17:47:00 While I was in Montreal last week the anthology containing two of my stories was released in Toronto . Still Here: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology OHTN - The Ontario HIV Treatment Network - acts as a collaborative network of people living with HIV/AIDS, health care providers, consumers, researchers, community-based organizations and government policy relating to the care ... More About: Book , Released
Craig?s death - one year later (updated May 13, 2008)
2008-05-10 00:32:00 Friday It was one year ago today (May 9), while my sister Lynn and Craig ’s partner Claude slipped out for a bite of lunch, that Craig took his leave from us in his Montreal hospital room. This has been an amazing week for Mom, Claude and me as the inaugural presentation of the Chaplin Memorial Award was ... More About: Mother , Death , Year , 2008
A day of firsts
2008-05-07 15:01:00 This afternoon, in a Toronto hotel ballroom, the anthology containing two of my short stories, will be released at a wine and cheese party. I will not be there as I am in Montreal for another significant event - the inaugural presentation of Craig`s memorial award. It is a lovely day and Mom, Claude and ...
Days of warm memories and reflection
2008-05-05 13:53:00 - I’m off to surround myself in memories of Craig. It’s a beautiful, sunny spring morning although the forecast calls for rain in Montreal mid-week. Will report in again Friday, if not before. More About: Memories , Days , Reflection
Please confirm my blog on Facebook
2008-05-04 00:57:00 Facebook will link to this blog, so long as a few more people vouch that you read it - even once in a while. If you are on Facebook, please click here, look over at “Know the owner?” on the right hand side and click on “This is the owner”. Thank you! ... More About: Blog , Facebook
Feeling
2008-05-03 05:34:00 On this day last year, one week before Craig’s death, I was very grateful for all the messages of support I had received. Now, in 2008, I am anticipating (that would be a neutral enough verb, yes?) being in Montréal again, this time to celebrate Craig’s legacy as the award in his name is presented, for ... More About: Feeling
Ducks drown in symbol of human excess
2008-05-01 08:01:00 Warning: According to my blog stats this is my 666th post. Please proceed with caution. The next time you are idling in a drive-thru, wasting gas the price of which has you so hopping mad, think of the unsuspecting ducks, migrating as they do this time of year, who unwittingly drowned ... More About: Human
Five years ago today my relationship with taxis changed
2008-04-30 15:21:00 Although I didn’t write this until much later, it was April 30, 2003 when the mishap took place. More About: Relationship , Toronto , Today , Years
Shaking my fist at diabetes
2008-04-30 01:03:00 The point was driven home today that diabetes is a bigger threat to me right now than nineteen years of HIV/AIDS. I’ve heard it before and frankly, despite taking blood glucose-lowering medications, I just haven’t managed to get the crucial numbers under control. Things went off the rails this time last year, with Craig’s accident and death, ... More About: Diabetes
Naming colonial arrogance
2008-04-28 19:40:00 I’m going to try to be more deliberate in following the issues of aboriginal rights which, frankly, don’t get the detailed national media coverage they deserve. The summer tourism season will present other opportunities for members, and settler allies, of the Algonquins of the Sharbot Lake area to engage in protest as they act against mining companies ... More About: First Nations , Arrogance , Naming
TTC should be an essential service - because it is!
2008-04-26 06:34:00 - On a mild night like this open windows let in the din of my downtown neighbourhood - the occasinal siren, the shouts of bar patrons on their way home, the hourly gong of the Old City Hall clock, the honking of cars and the TTC: the Toronto Transit Commission’s streetcars squealing on the turn from ... More About: Service , Essential
I was just thinking about Craig?
2008-04-25 23:19:00 …and I thought I’d re-post this. More About: Thinking , Craig
Still Here: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology
2008-04-24 21:43:00 Mt. Sinai Hospital I will be out of town so I’ll miss this, unfortunately, but here’s the information: Life Rattle Press is pleased to invite you to a reception celebrating the publication of STILL HERE: A POST-COCKTAIL AIDS ANTHOLOGY Mount Sinai Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry, The 2008 Narrative Matters Conference: Storying Our World, Ontario HIV ... More About: Post , Cocktail , Aids , Anthology
A year
2008-04-24 07:06:00 It was one year ago today, April 24, that my brother Craig fell, outside his home in Montreal, and suffered severe brain trauma. He died the following May 9, four days shy of his fifty-second birthday. We’ll be honouring his memory closer to that day. More About: Year
Montreal Canadiens just squeaked past Boston last night in the first round
2008-04-23 00:21:00 …the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs went all the way, winning the Stanley Cup , was the year before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Junior and Robert Kennedy - Canada’s Centennial and the year of Montreal ’s world fair Expo ‘67. This is where the Leafs played back then. It was 37 years old at ... More About: Boston , Montreal Canadiens
John Marks reminds me of my struggles with faith - and that we don?t have t
2008-04-18 04:34:00 Reasons to Believe: One Man?s Journey Among the Evangelicals and the Faith He Left Behind Browse Inside this book Get this for your site A little while ago I bought this book, by John Marks , that I?d heard about while clicking around TV, the subject matter of which resonated strongly with me. (Here’s a fair review.) Marks, a former ...
Bill Clinton: She?s 60 and tired
2008-04-11 23:14:00 President Clinton has set the topic for at least half a segment per political talk show this weekend. Just when you thought you had heard the last of Hillary’s Bosnia lie, now Bill lies about it too. And, no, Sir Elton I am not misogynist - any more than I’d think of you as racist which, ‘as ... More About: Barack Obama , Bill Clinton , Tired
James Loney to receive first Chaplin Memorial Award
2008-04-07 00:13:00 James Loney, whose name became familiar as one of four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams held hostage in Iraq from November of 2005 until March of 2006, will be the first recipient of an award, established by my late brother, when the spring convocation of McGill?s United Theological College is held May 7. While in Iraq ... More About: Award , Memorial , James
Hey Karl Rove: Shut the $*#& up!
2008-04-04 00:29:00 Karl Rove , the dastardly brains behind Dubya, was interviewed by GQ Magazine and didn’t hesitiate to insert himself into the Democratic nomination process. Hey Karl, shut up! Or, then again, since every time you open your mouth we think of President George W. Bush why not get on the McCain Bus(h)? Site Meter ] ... More About: Barack Obama , Karl Rove , Shut
Hardball: Clinton crosses over into pop culture
2008-04-02 00:27:00 In what is surely another bad sign for Hillary Clinton , the foreign-experience-in-Bosnia lie continues to get plenty of coverage (7:55 in length, following brief commercial), even if it is increasingly satirical. Hillary Clinton dodges sniper fire in Bosnia - raw footage (briefly seen in the above piece) Site Meter More About: Culture , Pop Culture , Crosses
A bit of my perception of reality
2008-03-31 04:42:00 For the past ten days or so I’ve been sick with an antibiotics-required cold (sinuses, chest, the works). It’s the third or fourth of the winter. Oh wait, it’s now spring. Thank goodness Mom didn’t catch it when I visited her Easter weekend. I don’t feel like talking to people just for the sake of reaching out. Besides, ... More About: Reality , Perception
Earth Hour 2008
2008-03-29 12:31:00 From the CTV report I have posted the stupidest of the viewer comments. Thankfully there were many, not shown, who were better informed. (It seems that several dinosaur fossils are out of the tar for the weekend.) laureen this is so silly I am going to turn on every light in my house from 8-9 john in ontario It’s 7:59 and ... More About: Earth , Hour , 2008
Chelsea Clinton misses opportunity to tout Mom?s strength
2008-03-26 18:40:00 How many of us had the same none-of-your-business response as Chelsea Clinton when she was asked about the effect of the Lewinsky scandal on her mother? BTW, and this is probably just genetics, but doesn’t Chelsea remind you of her mother when she nods (yes) while the crowd applauds her retort (as in tsk, tsk)? Well, it turns out, ... More About: Opportunity , Chelsea Clinton
Hillary did not misspeak, nor make a mistake - she lied!
2008-03-26 00:14:00 I am sorry Hillary but your “memory” of what did not happen was just too clear to have been a mistake, or a misspeak! And you repeated it on two or three occasions! Anyone who exits an airplane, while the tarmac is under sniper fire, would remember that clearly and might well still be recovering ... More About: Barack Obama , Clinton , Make , Lied
Picking through the entrails of the entrails
More articles from this author:2008-03-18 23:26:00 Politics with Don Newman on CBC Newsworld (the vid link will only survive until March 25) devoted most of the show today to Monday’s byelections and a new poll from Harris/Decima President Bruce Anderson. I also winced as Jack Layton attempted to spin Monday’s results, answering Don Newman’s questions as if the Dippers’ byelection win ... More About: Picking 1, 2, 3 |
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