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Today’s installment of “who wants to be bored by a vain 90+ year old” brings us the 5th Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Mackenzie Bowell. Name Sir Mackenzie Bowell Born: 23-12-27)December 27, 1823 in Rickinghall, England Died: December 10, 1917 Party: Conservative Held Office: December 21, 1894 – April 27, 1896 Best known for: -was a […] →Read more
What do you do if you live in Ottawa and are snowed under by 360 cm of snow? If you are Dave of Touch You Last, you hold your annual 24 hour movie marathon! That’s right, they are watching movies for 24 hours straight. They just reached the hour 7 mark and are watching Holes. […] →Read more
I’ve been a bit neglectful in my posting pictures I’ve what I wear to teach. Like, as soon as I mentioned that I was in the habit of doing that, I stopped doing it. But I have been taking the pics… just haven’t got around to posting then. Well, wait no longer, friends, because here […] →Read more
Last spring, my roommate left our little apartment to move on to bigger and better things (i.e., a dietetics internship in Victoria). Here are 24 things¹ that I miss about her: Her wicked sense of humour Walks to the produce stores on West Broadway Our 8 p.m. cookie bakes Impromptu parties where we invite random […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
In honour of National Grammar Day¹, I’d like to present you with this funky punctuation mark that I learned about on the Grammar Girl podcast: the interrobang. ‽ This funky punctuation mark is, as it appears to be, a combination of the question mark and the exclamation point and is used in situations where you […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
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, […] →Read more
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. […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more