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Five Years Ago Today the Levees Failed in New Orleans

By Em | Published: Sunday, August 29, 2010
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Spin party

By Em | Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
This is all a big coincidence, but it makes me mad all the same. This weekend, Tony Clement supposedly saved someone from drowning. Great – except he was just kinda there, he didn’t do much saving. His wife and father-in-law supposedly did it all, even according to his story. There’s lots of twittering about how it’s [...]
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OSPCA set to kill 350 animals

By Em | Published: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
More than 350 animals to be euthanized by Newmarket  OSPCA You have no idea how angry and sad this makes me. I’ve had a link to the OSPCA at the bottom of my blog for a long time now, mostly because I’ve supported this organization in most of its decisions and appreciate the help they give to [...]
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music and funerals

By Em | Published: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Today was Penny’s funeral, and I guess it brought some closure to the whole thing. I think that’s part of the problem – I cried the night she told me she was diagnosed with leukemia (in 2008), and it’s been a kind of prolonged uncertain sadness since then, peppered with bits of optimism, and then [...]
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Sad sad sad.

By Em | Published: Tuesday, April 6, 2010
We’re back in Ottawa. We had a great break in Minden, but came back to find out that my friend Penny had died while we were gone. If you remember, Penny was my friend who was diagnosed with Leukemia in late 2008. I’ve written about her a few times since then, but mostly wanted to [...]
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burning down the house

By Em | Published: Saturday, March 27, 2010
There was an apartment fire this morning in Ottawa, in the Glebe, near Bank & Fifth Ave. I woke up and saw smoke on the horizon, and turned on my iPhone’s police scanner to see what was going on. I love listening to my scanner. Anyhow, that’s what it looked like from over in the [...]
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RIP Kate McGarrigle

By Em | Published: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
I was saddened to hear that Kate McGarrigle had passed away. I knew she had been diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, but honestly, hadn’t been paying attention and didn’t know she was so ill. I’ve seen her a few times, in combination with her son, Rufus Wainwright, and she’s always been a great [...]
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I’ve been quiet

By Em | Published: Sunday, December 27, 2009
I’m sorry I haven’t been updating. There’s been a lot of stuff going on and I really should have been venting about it, and venting about it publicly because it is truly absurd, but I’ve been trying to take the high road. This post was longer. It was completely honest and I stand by it. [...]
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École Polytechnique Massacre

By Em | Published: Sunday, December 6, 2009
On December 6th, 1989, a man entered the École Polytechnique in Montreal and murdered 14 innocent women. Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student Maud Haviernick (born [...]
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I didn’t know this existed in Canada

By Em | Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Today is the National Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims in Canada.  I learn so much working for the Canadian government – I had never heard of this. Timely, given that smash-up I witnessed earlier this month. I was just talking about it to my therapist last night. He’s been on holidays since then, [...]
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