Now on YouTube. For those of you who are sure I am a horrible father, I did check out his injuries and they weren’t severe enough to stop him from trying out his skimboard for another half hour or so.
May, 2008:
The Sorting Room
Congrats to Andrew and Debbie Jones on the opening of The Sorting Room. The Sorting Room is the Community Interest Company side of our social enterprise. This opening marks the launch of a dozen micro-businesses, some of them from the small islands around Orkney. We are artists and artisans who want our creativity to inspire [...]
The Devil Plays Hardball
A documentary for CBC Newsworld :: It questions whether the mentor model is the best way to get people who are living on the streets off the streets. Cameras were rolling as a well-to-do mother of four, a lawyer, an IT consultant and a film director paired up with homeless people for 10 months. The [...]
Fences to keep out the homeless
From the Salvation Army website The city of Port Coquitlam, B.C. wants to fence off certain sheltered areas from the homeless. They say it is a public safety measure! The fences would stop the homeless from finding refuge in picnic shelters and under bridges. The homeless are just looking for a warm, sheltered place to [...]
Contextless Thoughts
I can’t figure out what Hillary Clinton is going to accomplish by keeping her campaign going until the Democratic convention in August. Jason Cherniak has some reasons on why she should stay in the campaign but in the end he is arguing for a Canadian type political convention rather than an American one (one with [...]
