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Vivian coined the term to describe 2009. In late October 2008, our agent was doing wonderful work with Erin’s novel, Plain Kate. There had been significant interest from a number of houses and we were, frankly, flabbergasted by the results. ...
Today, sources within the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was going to ask Governor General Michaelle Jean to prorogue parliament, suspending its sittings from now until March. ...
The photo above is entitled Eiffel Tower Telescopes Into Cloud. It’s by ATIS547 (don’t look at me; that’s the user name they chose) and is used in accordance with his or her Creative Commons license. The...
We’re safe and well in the Crowne Plaza hotel here in Omaha, but the major winter storm that’s blowing through here is disrupting a lot of travellers’ plans. Interstates have been closed, including the I-29 to the Canadian border and a portion of the I-80 east of Council Bluffs. Our...
Maybe I shouldn’t have complained about having nothing to write about. I’m typing this in the Crowne Plaza hotel in western Omaha. We...
We made it to Lincoln on Sunday, after staying overnight with Michael and Rosemarie in Des Moines. Since then, we’ve been recovering. We’re all down with colds, but getting better, and the kids are doing better after being cooped up in a car for three days. We haven’t done much. Earl...
Before I start this blog post, I should mention that, by the time you read this, Doctor Who’s Waters of Mars should have debuted in Canada on the Space Network. You can read my review of it here. Did you like it? Did you not? ...
I started writing this blog post three months ago, and re-discovered it in my Downloads folder recently. I’m posting it here, now, while :Erin: and I work on getting ready for our trip to Iowa and Nebraska this holiday. It’s a little sad how current the topic remains. B...
I’ve been working on this since August and, recently, my agent gave me her blessing to post this publicly. ...
I’d like to say a big thank you to Liberal MPs who, working with MPs from the New Democratic Party and the Bloc Quebecois, pushed forward a parliamentary motion which compels various ministries to release uncensored documents on allegations of prisoner abuses in Afghanistan. ...
Human rights are important. The Geneva Convention is not just a piece of paper. The UN Declaration isn’t just something to make us feel good. ...
Twenty years ago today, a young man walked into a classroom at the L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, took out a gun, ordered all of the men to leave, and shot fourteen young women because they were “feminists”. The man’s name, of course, was Marc Lepine. And ...
Circulating around the Internet is this tragic tale of 13-year-old Hope Witsell, who killed herself after several months of severe harassment by her fellow students. Her ‘crime’? An...
The photograph above is entitled Bridge to Nowhere and is by Misserion. It is used in accordance with her Creative Commons License. Things are going well for Icarus Down. As Erin notes, the story has passed Sorrow’s Knot in the race. We now have to set down what the finish line for the race is. ...
(A waymarker commemorating Canada’s first birth control clinic, circa 1931. The sign can be found in the City of Hamilton. The photograph is courtesy Waymarking.com) Most reviews are useful. Even the uncomplimentary ones. ...
