“We invented the notion of a future”
There’s another excerpt from the foreword David Suzuki wrote for Now or Never, the latest from Tim Flannery, that I wanted to share in addition to the one I cited yesterday. I can’t really praise Suzuki’s eloquence without sharing my favourite excerpt from the foreword in question: “It has long been my contention,” Suzuki writes, […]
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Link of the Day: Canadian Organic Growers Toronto Chapter
“Canadian Organic Growers (COG) is a federally incorporated registered charity that has been promoting organic growing for over 30 years. COG’s membership includes consumers, gardeners, retailers, processors and farmers from all regions of Canada.” The mission of the Toronto chapter is to “create awareness of and appreciation for sustainable organic food systems by growing membership […]
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Suzuki on the solution to climate change (and why we ignored it)
If I tend to quote the iconic David Suzuki fairly often, it’s because I think there are few people who can nail a point as effectively and eloquently as he can. Particularly within the world of science, where the vast majority of the writing tends to be pretty dry. For example, take this excerpt from […]
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Creative Writing: Introduction
I’ve recently started taking an introductory creative writing course through the School of Continuing Studies at U of T. I’m a couple of sessions in, with eight more to go, and so far I’ve found it really enlightening. The five hundred words I posted earlier this afternoon were actually my take on our first assignment. […]
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Meeting my future wife
Kate was in town from the United Kingdom, paying a visit to some old friends after a couple of weeks of travel. It was a Wednesday night in June; the night before, she’d caught the midnight flight out of Peru, where she’d been hiking and sightseeing on her own. She’d broken up with her boyfriend, […]
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“Harper government to spend $6.5-million to promote tax-cutting record”
The headline above is courtesy of Thursday’s edition of the Globe and Mail. By the way, that’s $6.5 million in public funds, not Conservative party expenses. A Canada Revenue Agency spokesperson said that the purpose of the campaign is to ensure Canadians take full advantage of this year’s available tax measures. But Kevin Gaudet, president […]
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Link of the Day: Hell Tetris
Somebody out there actually took the time to turn this, an old xkcd strip, into a genuine video game. It’s hilariously frustrating. Give it a few tries, and then throw your computer away in a fit of shameful disgust.
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Link of the Day: Coffee Party
The Coffee Party is “an organically growing, non-partisan movement brewed up by Democracy Watch,” which is itself a rather noble project. “If Canadians spent as much time writing politicians about their concerns as they spend lining up to buy coffee, we would have the good, democratic governments and responsible big businesses we want. Politicians get […]
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Link of the Day: The Don Valley Movie Club
The Don Valley Movie Club is essentially my friend Simon’s new blog, although he prefers to describe it as the “weird and often incoherent ramblings of a screenwriter who originally just needed a place to post a story about making gravy from hot dogs.” You can read that story here, by the way. Will it […]
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