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Celebrating beavers with donuts

I’m happy – and surprised! – to have won three smiling beavers in the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards last night.

Check it out: Best Personal Blog! Third Best Activities Blog! Best Local Blog!

Many, many thanks to the people who nominated me* and to every single one of you who took the time to vote. Big […]

Bank Street Bully

I arrived at the corner of Bank and MacLaren this afternoon as three police officers were trying to put an unconscious, handcuffed woman into the back of a van. She looked like a rag doll.

Then they changed their minds and laid her out on the sidewalk and sent for an ambulance. The female officer slid […]

Could it be a manufactured economic crisis?

Remember back in the 1990s when Ontario Education Minister John Snobelen was caught boasting of the evil Conservative scheme to ‘manufacture a crisis’ in education? Basically, the scheme involved deliberately deceiving the public into believing that education spending was out of control, that educational standards were going down the toilet, that teachers were to blame, […]

Murder Mystery?

Last night we were on Nepean Street near Bank Street, and we saw a dead pigeon in the snow. And then another. And another. And another. And another.

We were mystified. We know pigeons aren’t the brightest birds around, but they must have some instinct for survival. What do you suppose happened to them?

What have unions ever done for us?

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Dr. Seuss to Mayor Larry: Mad not Sad

The bus strike and the blizzard seem almost divinely synchronized for maximum impact on the city. I predict chaos and paralysis if this strike is not averted. It was bad enough trying to get home tonight, with just the blizzard.

Mayor Larry, on his blog, keeps saying things like “It would be sad if there were […]

How to find stuff to do

People have been asking me lately how I find all these interesting and quirky things to do in such a boring city.

1. Email Lists

(a): I subscribe to Artengine, and it sends me notices about all kinds of art-related events. There are a LOT of art-related events going on in Ottawa. For example, on Friday night […]

PC or Mac?

I’m back to agonizing over the purchase of my next computer. This is something I do periodically before shoving it to the back burner again because I can’t decide between a Mac and a PC. I blame it on my indecisive Libra nature.

I’ve been using PCs for about 20 years now. My current PC […]

Pottery for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner

I was lucky yesterday because my birthday-twin Laura very kindly sent me a head’s-up about an event she knew I’d like. It was pottery artist Chandler Swain’s annual Christmas sale, which was being held in a private residence on Sunnyside Street.

I loved it. GC and I were the very first customers to arrive, so we […]

Help needed: Duncan and The Dog

I used to sleep alone in my big double bed. Last January Duncan moved in, and as you know he’s kind of on the large size. He’s never been the kind of cat who sleeps with the feet. Right from the very first night, Duncan slept with his arm wrapped around me and his face […]