Stanstead QC–I wonder if there might be a link between the relative anonymity of the producers of beef and the impending demise of the family beef cattle farm in Canada? It’s not like anyone who consumes beef knows where the meat comes from, what the conditions are on the farm, […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
Stanstead QC–Pietro said it sounded as if something had fallen from a truck driving too fast down Stage Road. Trucks often drive at breakneck speeds past the ‘Please be careful. This could be your child’ signs so it didn’t require an enormous stretch of the imagination to think that one […]
Stanstead QC–On my flight from Washington-Dulles to Burlington, Vermont I was lucky enough to sit down next to Andrea. Actually, that’s not entirely true. We were originally seated across the aisle from one another however then a mom with four kids came aboard and a child sat in the empty […]
I was on a call with longtime friend and colleague Mike Ramsey when Emma and Sophie – and their friend Hanna – burst into my office this morning to breathlessly announce they’d found a bear’s bed out in the far corner of our property, near a stand of wild blackberry […]
Please take a moment or three to ponder Passage Quilts – a hands-on bereavement process. From the artistic genius of Sherri Lynn Wood. Since 2002 Sherri has been working with people through collaboration, consultation and commission to make improvised quilts from the clothing and materials of everyday life. This practice […]
Pointe Claire QC–Often when people discover I have managed to lose a serious amount of weight, they want to know if there’s a secret to overnight success. When I explain that I’ve been cycling for eighteen months, have altered the way I consume food, and carefully ensure I put in […]
Pointe Claire QC–I’m driving out towards Stanstead on Highway 10 in Quebec when I realize the flat end of the EMS line is where we really need Advanced Life Support [ALS]. The number of ambulances per capita drops off radically as you cross the Champlain Bridge off the island of […]
Montreal QC–Yesterday I wrote on my Facebook page that I believe the entire current emergency management/homeland security consultancy paradigm needs to be shoved out the window on the top floor of a very high building. Where’s the fidiciary responsibility to the citizens? Where’s the transfer of any real-world meaningful knowledge? […]