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Passchendaele
Paul Gross, he of Due South and Men With Brooms fame, and I have a lot in common. Okay, I heard the snickering back there. No I’m serious, check this out.. 1) We were born less than 6 months apart, both of us Prairie Boys. Okay granted, as an army brat he moved a lot…
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Shopping? Actually, something more.
Christmas Shopping here in Arctic Bay is not so much shopping as it is a social event. Oh, ultimately the idea is to get you to leave your money in the stores, and take home some cheap Spiderman knock-off from China ("For luxurious children entertainment. Many times of fun"), but over the years it has…
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Cigarette?
One of my most enduring (not endearing like my caffeine addled brain first wrote) first memories of Arctic Bay came on my second or third day here (maybe the fourth). My stuff hadn’t arrived yet and I had sent my partner out for the weekend on a prisoner escort, so I was staying at his…
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Silent Bob’s not so Silent Blog*
It may come as a surprise to those who know me only through this blog, but I am a major Kevin Smith (View Askew Films) fan. I think I’ve enjoyed (and own) all of his films (okay Mallrats is a stretch), films such as Clerks, Chasing Amy (my personal favourite), Dogma, Jersey Girl etc. I’ve…
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My mum in Australia wants to talk to you. Part four.
Link to Part one. At the core some people are able to be conned because they are being offered something that they want. Much of the time it revolves around money. Nigerian letter scams work essentially because of greed, someone really believing that someone is offering the 10 percent of an insane amount of money…
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Time to replace the foundation
Trial by Jury has long been considered one of the cornerstones of law, certainly British based law. Many people date juries back to the time of the Magna Carta, but in truth it’s origins go back even farther than that. The right to a trial by jury is entrenched in Section 11 of the Canadian…
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10,000 Birds and 100,000 hits
I don’t know what it is about even, round numbers but we seem to be partial to taking notice of them. I took a picture of my odometre at 100,000 kms this fall, but really 99,999.9 is the more interesting odometre reading. One of my blog odometres turned over 100,000 an hour or so ago. …
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Last Five Songs
I’ve added a new list to my sidebar on the right. Inspired by Townie Bastard, One of the features of his posts (which he recently revived) was his last five songs which he lists in each post. I hope to update it when I add a new post, although if they (the post) come in…
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Martha Stewart on the caffeine patch
Okay, I used to think my mother had a lot of Christmas decorations out. After seeing this house (via Rurality) I no longer think that. You’ve got some catching up to do mom.
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Reading outloud
I know I’ve been bad… The My mum in Australia wants to talk to you series was left in a lurch some time ago. I’ve been working on the screenplay is all, and being kept up late by my darling daughter so I’m going back to bed during my writing time. But on Sunday I…
