A research project that I began in June 2010 has finally reached its conclusion: I have co-authored a book with Dr. Paul Bogaard, entitled The Struggle for Sackville: The British Re-settlement of Chignecto 1755-1770. This book was published by the Tantramar Heritage Trust and released in time for Sackville, New Brunswick’s 250th anniversary, which we […]
Read more "Published!"Here is The Hidden Cameras, “Awoo” – the video looks suitably Canadian for this post: . Canada Day was superb – a blistering hot day filled with the expected – rainbow flags and smiling people and face paint (and breast paint!) and the always surprising flashes of wrinkly, naked bums around every street corner. The […]
Read more "Canada Day, Awoo!"Here is The Hidden Cameras’ “Golden Streams” to start your morning off right (included more for the song than the video itself, heh): . This weekend a lot of big things are happening: It’s Pride in Toronto! The final Euro Cup game is on – and if Italy wins, my intersection near Corso Italia is […]
Read more "Happy Canada Day!"Oh hello there, it’s been a while. Radiohead’s “Bulletproof… I Wish I Was”: This is the stuff that’s hard to talk about, and it has taken me a few days to commit my thoughts to the page (or… space?). As I excitedly wrote about in one of my last posts, this past Saturday I was […]
Read more "Radiohead Cancels More Concerts for 2012 Tour". Thursday 1. Get out of work at 1:00 p.m. because your work is awesome and always gets out early before a long weekend. Celebrate in style with some beers with colleagues at The Wheat Sheaf, one of Toronto’s oldest pubs, because it is so chill that you can learn the waitresses’ names, if you […]
Read more "How to Have a Good Long Weekend"It is finally happening… June 16, 2012. Toronto, Ontario. I finally get to see Radiohead (with Caribou! a nice bonus). I don’t care if they are over-hyped or there are going to be a million hipsters milling about with ironic tears on their faces or Thom Yorke is kind of a misanthropist (which I have […]
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