the big picture on rising gas prices

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Though it hasn’t happened yet, many people expect the cost of gasoline to become an issue in the Canadian federal election. The effort people put into complaining about gas prices has long been a frustration of mine � to me it’s a clear example of the symptom (high gas prices) getting more attention than the […]

May

25

the problems with big music

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A while back my friend Alexandra asked me to post an article I had written for The Republic newspaper in Vancouver last summer. At the time I had expected the issue to be posted online, and planned to provide a link here at propeller. Unfortunately, the issue my article appeared in was among those not […]

May

18

the best parts of toronto

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As summer slowly awakens here in Southern Ontario, the city feels like a nicer and nicer place to be. I’m quickly learning that nice weather for Torontonians means patios, and the dawn of “cottage season” � a tradition we don’t have back in BC � occurs this long weekend.
In honour of that, I’d like to […]

May

16

portfolio now linked

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A new link over on the left-hand navigation column, you’ll notice, reads “Portfolio”. Those who click it will be whisked away to News Page Designer, an online gallery of news pages posted by the people who designed them. My gallery�a temporary version of my portfolio, until I can get one posted here�includes mostly Peak covers, […]

May

10

my greatest canadians

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At first I was skeptical of this “Greatest Canadian” idea the CBC has come up with. But, on further reflection, I have a short-list of Canadians I’d like to see recognized:
Louis Riel, for refusing to take any shit from the government and demanding that his people be respected.
Terry Fox, for selflessly spending the last months […]

May

8

comments disabled

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As of today, I have disabled comments from this site for a while. Click “Comments” for this post (below) if you’d like to read about why.
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May

8

Googow does it again

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This funny little feature of Google was just brought to my attention: if you go to the Language Tools link from the main page, you get access to a variety of languages Google can be used in. Nothing remarkable about that, you say? Look closely. Several of the languages are a little, well, unorthodox. One […]

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