Yesterday Peter and I, along with friends Esther and Philip, attended the 9th Annual Strawberry Ceremony in Honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, held at Police HQ downtown. I took a few photos for our team blog, and posted/retweeted a lot more on Twitter; it was a good event, and very well attended.

According to the Save Wiyabi Mapping ( Read more... )

(For this blog entry, I recommend the song Jailer, by Asa. Lyrics hereAt our CPT-O meeting on Saturday, after various project presentations (Chris and me on Elsipogtog/New Brunswick; Bob on Palestine,* and Peter on the Royal Proclamation trip to London, UK,**), we heard from Mohamed Mahjoub, an Egyptian man who's been living in Canada as a prisoner ( Read more... )

Super Bowl's tomorrow. Me, I'm rooting for the Seahawks, entirely because my friend in Seattle is a huge Seahawks fan and I have no FB friends who are Broncos fans. It's a matter of status-update-exposure. I don't actually plan to watch the game, except maybe via YouTube clips later, but part of that is because I'm in Toronto and don't have easy ( Read more... )