Hey. Rick Mercer has a blog.
Cool.
Maybe he can prick a few holes in our high opinion of ourselves.
You always remember your first….
Like many big personal firsts the anticipation is huge but it will probably turn out to be anticlimactic, clumsily executed and mercifully short.
Yup… I was right..

Can you believe 94% of Canadians think the world has a favourable view of Canada?
That is a strange disconnect from reality.
The Pew Research Centre connected the poll in April and May.
The sympathy and empathy Canadians felt toward the US in 2002 has slipped from 92% to 59%. We’re more likely to view Germany, France and [...]

20 years ago today a bomb planted in Canada on Air India Flight 182 snuffed out the lives of 329 people off the coast of Ireland.
Put that in a population perspective of a 10-1 ratio with the population of the US.
Or with the Australian losses in Bali.
Or…
There has been no justice.
Two men finally put [...]

Merriment over at Metafilter - rediscovering Jesus sandals.

I’ve been rather tired this week and I don’t know why.
I’m weary of people assuming I guess. I don’t know.
Online friends have been having a tough go of it.
Quantum Tea had a car accident, Such Small Hands holding firm, Jordon Cooper had a borderline heart attack, Ganns dad died last week….
Familar voices stepping back because [...]

Two months after the Schiavo case exposed an entire nation to one family’s bitter battle with death, the hospice has returned to its normal rhythms. In the past 60 days, 129 new patients have arrived, 19 memorials have been held and 88 residents have died, each departing the way Schiavo left — on a gurney, [...]

Awhile ago I had a blogger I respect write me and in essence say, knock off Warren Kinsella, he’s a nice guy.
Then they said they weren’t in a position to tell me why they said that, which is fine. I don’t doubt what they said for a second.
I know the drill. Some of the people [...]

I’m not going to put a comment section up, this has shaken me.
There is a 16 year old boy named Zach who lives in Tennessee.
He has been sent by his parents to a boot camp called Love In Action.
Zach told his parents recently he was gay and they’ve shipped him off.
I don’t know the details [...]