April 2007

Now this is what I’m talking about!

April 27, 2007

Speaking yesterday of Richard Branson, and Virgin being the Grand Pubah of brands… I just went to the Virgin Atlantic website. Check it out.. top right corner. Made me break out in a big goofy grin. It’s the little things, sometimes.

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Flick off!!

April 26, 2007

Today on the news, I heard this story. The environment minister for Ontario launched the Flick Off program yesterday, an advertising campaign targeted primarily at youth to get them aware and involved in environmental issues. If you check out the website, it’s an awesome campaign. Starting with the splash screen, “We only have 10 years […]

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Walking disaster area

April 24, 2007

The last 24 hours have been laughable. I: couldn’t find my passport when I went to leave the house to go on a business trip. Tore the damn place apart, called the office asking someone to dig through my desk to see if it was there, made my husband look everywhere. Finally after 45 minutes […]

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Dear Sheraton,

April 24, 2007

Hi, how are you? Good, good, that’s good. Listen, we have to talk. I’m at this hotel of yours, and you know, generally, it’s pretty good. Your check in guy was hilarious. Room’s nice and big. The bed is really very comfortable (love those pillows, are those new?) The spinach salad I got from room […]

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Neglect.

April 24, 2007

Last week, I had clients in on Thursday and Friday, so Wednesday was spent prepping until the wee hours. Also, Thursday night we had hockey tickets, and Wednesday night a friend was in town, so Friday night I was exhausted. Then Saturday and Sunday, it was 20 degrees and sunny out, so like I was […]

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This is exactly what I mean..

April 17, 2007

‘Join in the national healing’. WTF? So after today’s convocation, everyone should be all better?? Just one big bandaid? It’s called Shock. Mourning. Healing is a long, long way away. There are still 30+ funerals to hold. 30+ obituaries. 30+ funeral homes. There is cleaning and repainting and repairing the buildings, cleaning up the spilled […]

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Virginia Tech Shootings

April 17, 2007

Yesterday was horrible. A man killed 32 people at Virginia Tech before turning the gun on himself. The whole picture isn’t known yet. It’s thought right now that there was one shooter, that he was a student at the college, that he killed two people first then went in to a series of classrooms and […]

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The Playoffs

April 15, 2007

Ah, April. The time when the snow finally melts to leave a disgusting layer of crud, gravel, dirt, and discarded Tim Horton’s cups on the landscape. It’s been cool this April, unlike the past couple of years: Spring of 05 the tulips were in bloom by now. This year it’s barely gotten above freezing. Not […]

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If this is our dog, I shudder to think of our children

April 13, 2007

I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning, bleary eyed and sniffly, as usual. I didn’t wake up because the alarm was going off, nor even because I had to sneeze. No, I woke up because of my dog. My dog is a Beagle, creatively named The Beagle. We’ve taken a lot of flack for […]

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Why would we bother?

April 11, 2007

So, further to this post I made the other day… Belinda Stronach is not returning to the House of Commons after this term ends. She just spoke to As It Happens on CBC, where she was asked about women in politics. Her response, in part, identified the “level of civility” in the HOC as being […]