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At work, I’ve been doing a lot of reading about addictions, trauma, violence, and mental health. And to be honest, it can be a really downer reading things like “Most violence against adult women is perpetrated by intimate partners” and “…past victimization increased the risk of a new rape incidence by a factor of seven […]
Apparently Quirks & Quarks and I are not the only ones expressing displeasure with the federal government’s “manifest disregard for science” A recent issue of Nature contained an editorial that lambastes the Canadian government for such moves as eliminating the position of national science adviser, backing away from the Kyoto Accord, muzzling Environment Canada’s scientists […]
The trailer for this week’s installment of “Who Wants to Learn About a Canadian Prime Minister” was brought to you courtesy of Sarah, who I told you was going to have much to say on this series once she returned from Down Under. Name Sir John Sparrow David Thompson Born: November 10, 1845 in Halifax, […]
So, I totally forgot to blog yesterday. I realized it at around 1:30 this morning, just as I was about to go to bed. And so my daily blogging streak for 2008 ends… an entire *month* earlier than it did last year¹! In my defense, yesterday was Feburary 29… that’s not really a real day². […]
One of my new fav blogs is Feministing.com. Usually the stuff I read over there makes me rather angry… things like Canadian doctors refusing to perform pap smears on unmarried women because they disagree with unmarried women having sex, or the US Senate passing an amendment that bans the use of federal Indian Health Service […]
I love the internets because it gives me such wonderful things as this picture. And Flying Spaghetti Monster bless Flickr user Eric B for having a Creative Commons license on this photo so I can post that here, for your viewing pleasure.
And speaking of politics, there is a byelection happening in my riding on March 171. According to this CTV News article, the seat will probably be staying Liberal. My favourite part of the article was this: Conservative candidate Deborah Meredith isn’t in Ottawa yet but she’s already refusing requests for interviews. Oh Tories, how you […]
So, the third Canadian P.M. was some dude named Sir John Abbott. Seriously, why does that name not ring a bell to me? I swear I’ve never heard that name before in my life2. Name Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott Born: March 12, 1821 in St. Andrews, Lower Canada Died: October 30, 1893 Party: Liberal-Conservative […]
This week’s installment of my Prime Ministerial series will have to wait until tomorrow because (a) I’ve already blogged a hellava lot this weekend and I’ll have to actually do research on the next P.M.1 and I can’t really justify spending the time it would take to blog that today and (b) I have far […]
Notes to Self: Don’t wear thigh highs when you are wearing a skirt with a high slit in it. I didn’t hear the word “granular” once at this year’s conference. Last year, every second word was granular. I *totally* have to try out all of the 50 Web 2.0 tools for telling a story. Maybe […]