http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-arndt/20-thing-ive-learned-from_b_673264.html 2) The media lies. If you only learned about other countries from the news, you’d think the world was a horrible place. The media will always sensationalize and simplify a story. I was in East Timor when the assassination attempts on President José Ramos-Horta, and Prime Minister Xanana Guséo in 2008. The stories in […]
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Aurora Borealis captured in stunning Northern Lights display | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1265154/Aurora-Borealis-captured-stunning-Northern-Lights-display.html I’m with Tasha: Hearing about someone “braving” -20C makes me wonder how they’d deal with -30 and a windchill factor, which we get regularly during the winter. Besides, she’s a Brit – she should be thankful for the fact that it’s a dry cold. (The coldest I’ve ever felt in my life was 1C […]
Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge – Torontoist
http://torontoist.com/2009/11/disgruntled_star_editor_takes_revenge.php The Toronto Star is making some cutbacks, and one of their wilier editors makes a case for continued employment.
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Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Canadian Doctors &Health Care Experts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXXBCFnhsUc I was engaged in this health care debate long before yesterday, when it became a personal reality: I was wakened by a call from my grandmother’s nursing home, informing me that she had fallen and was very sick, and that she had been rushed to hospital by ambulance. I spent the day with her, […]
Op-Ed Contributors – Our True North – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01canadaday.html?_r=1 The NYTimes put together some thoughts on Canada from famous Canucks now resident in the US (though that last part is understood in the “famous Canucks”). Malcolm Gladwell comes up with what I think is the funniest, and most Canadian: In history class, in seventh grade (or as we like to say in Canada, […]
Family, Valued – Torontoist
http://torontoist.com/2009/06/family_valued.php I’ve been playing co-host to an Australian tourist for the past few days, and it’s got me thinking a lot about my home and native land of Toronto. I make no bones about feeling like it’s a “home away from home” where Paris is concerned, but there are certain aspects of life here that […]
Toronto Zoo elephant dies after push to ground by one of her own – Toronto – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/06/15/torontozoo-elephant.html An elephant died over the weekend at the Toronto Zoo after another elephant shoved her to the ground over some food. Tessa, 40, fell and couldn’t get back up even with the help a crane after a more dominant elephant pushed her Saturday, zoo officials said. My zoo membership expired the other week; I’d […]
Raccoon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon I live in a metropolis where my rat sightings have been far outnumbered by my raccoon sightings. The raccoons are definitely more fun. (Though I say that as one of the few in our neighbourhood whose roof has not been used as a communal raccoon toilet.) They’re fascinating to watch – lumbering animals with […]
Campbell wins 3rd straight term in B.C.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/bcvotes2009/story/2009/05/12/bc-election-results-main-story.html I know very little about Gordon Campbell outside of his DUI from a few years ago (and, really, that’s about all I needed to know), but it seems I was also ignorant of the total collapse of BC’s political right wing. It makes sense, in such a socially progressive province, but I’m surprised – […]
Cariibean Fruits
http://www.tntisland.com/fruits.html One of the best things about living in Toronto (in my opinion, the finest – and truest – multicultural city in the world) is the abundance of exotic produce available for our immigrant population to have a taste of home. Almost all of the fruits listed on this page are available at a single, […]