My motto for the day! It's been snowing for much of the night and all day so far here in Ottawa, but it isn't too bad. Normally I would have just stayed home with a lovely pot of tea, but a good friend of mine from out west is visiting relatives here, so we planned to meet for brunch ( Read more... )

So my father is having his ten minutes of fame, as they say.

Some of you may have heard of the problems that the Commonwealth Games are having at this point in time. There are stories about a collapsed pedestrian bridge, unfinished Athletes' Village accommodations, terrorist threats, etc.

My father is going to be attending the games in Delhi as a ( Read more... )

Comme le dit un vieil adage:
Rien n'est si beau que son pays;
Et de le chanter c'est l'usage
Le mien je chante à mes amis.

L'étranger voit d'un oeil d'envie
Du Saint-Laurent le majestueux cours;
A son aspect le canadien s'écrie:
O Canada! mon pays! mes amours.-G.E. Cartier (1835 ( Read more... )

Hey guys, look! New glasses! :D


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Man, reading stuff from the 1830s has really improved my vocabulary. I've been reading things like the 1839 "Report on Indian Affairs" by J.B.Macaulay. (According to our prof., this will make us forty people join a group of about maybe forty other living people in the entire world who have ever actually bothered to read this 89 page document in ( Read more... )

If you said "Carmen Sandiego", you rock. :)


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