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I was wrong 30 Oct 2012 | 03:23 pm

I thought it would work to just re-initiate blogging here, and that because it wouldn’t require the effort of trying to build a new virtual house, and refine my virtual voice, that it would be easier....

Bilingualism and Canadian Identity 21 Oct 2012 | 09:19 pm

This article from a few days ago previews the upcoming (Oct 24) release of census data describing Canadian’s linguistic abilities. It deals in particular with the relationship between the data that is...

Saturday Shot 20 Oct 2012 | 05:53 pm

Coming home after some time away to find a pretty spectacular fall

Debates and Political Performance 19 Oct 2012 | 06:53 pm

I feel a little guilty saying so, but nothing makes me so glad to be something other than USian than election season. I’m certainly not saying that Canadian elections are spectacular displays of democ...

Revisited, Again. 18 Oct 2012 | 12:27 am

Again I hit a point where life made blogging essentially untenable. Again I have come to find that I miss it and want to try to make it work between me and the internet. Again I am likely to fail – wh...

Rethinking protest 28 Jun 2010 | 04:39 am

Okay, so now that the situation in Toronto has gotten really serious, all of a sudden we’re having an entirely different conversation about protest. Well, an entirely different conversation from the o...

Sports Nationalism 27 Jun 2010 | 04:36 am

The commentary portion of the World Cup broadcast just brought up a somewhat intriguing point in reference to the spectacular failure of the French. Apparently, the French government has requested an ...

Protest, cynicism, and fake lakes 25 Jun 2010 | 12:38 am

With the G8/G20 Summits happening nearby in Toronto/Muskoka, I know a few people who have gone to the protests, and I’m obviously seeing quite a bit of coverage in the news. And I feel, in some ways, ...

Is Evo-psych worth saving? 19 Jun 2010 | 01:57 am

…in which I assert an extraordinary amount of arrogance in order to make sweeping judgments about an entire discipline of study. The context, of course, is the blog-publication of yet another example...

And I wonder why people think of Africa as one country… 17 Jun 2010 | 12:48 am

Okay, so the World Cup, which I’ve been watching – and enjoying on a new and deeply emotional level, much to my own surprise, actually – pretty constantly this week, is, of course, in South Africa. It...

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