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    Off to the Body Shop

    Blog | Wednesday, 19 Sep 2007
    That was, of course, Anita Roddick’s original wry reference. A car garage for spare parts installation. I will be heading to Ottawa General (tomorrow for tests and Friday for surgery) to get a new...

    The Montreal Protocol

    Blog | Saturday, 15 Sep 2007
    Tomorrow will be a great day in Montreal as the whole United Nations family gathers to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the Montreal Protocol. In September, 1987, Canada led...

    A star goes out

    Blog | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2007
    You probably know the name Anita Roddick. Maybe you have read about her as the phenomenon who launched Body Shop. I worked with her, knew her through a series of funny phone calls, met her husband...

    Twenty-Six

    Blog | Saturday, 08 Sep 2007
    Earlier this summer, Farley and Claire Mowat lent me a book they had really loved -- Twenty-Six. The author, Leo McKay, Jr., was born and raised in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. His first novel, Like...

    Labour Day

    Blog | Monday, 03 Sep 2007
    We drove back to Ottawa, my daughter and I, in our new Prius. Ordinarily, being car-less for so long, we would have flown or taken the train. We have had to fly for the last few years since VIA...

    Home movies from Montebello

    Blog | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007
    In case you missed it, here is the Youtube link showing the confrontation at Montebello between Union organizer Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, and three...

    Thoughts from the river

    Blog | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007
    Water was not just splashing; it was being shoveled into my lap as a team of keen, and somewhat inexperienced paddlers set out to conquer the event called the "dragon boat race". The Race on the...

    Prius blog

    Blog | Monday, 06 Aug 2007
    As readers of the Globe and Mail will know, I just got my new silver Prius! (I admit, parenthetically, that it is an odd sensation to know that the routine and mundane aspects of my life now seem to...

    Wind Power Flaps

    Blog | Monday, 16 Jul 2007
    This last week there have been a number of wind power related controversies. One played out through the blog pages of this web site; another continues to rage in the little village of Pugwash, Nova...