December 2011
8 posts
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I like these things
You know those websites that your fingers automatically crawl to when you approach a computer with no clear directive in mind but amusement? These are mine.
Slate Magazine - General interest magazine. Come for the Dear Prudence, stay for the everything else.
Hark, A Vagrant! – My favourite comic strip. History, especially Canadian history, made clever and hilarious by the fantastic Kate...
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VLTs: Nova Scotia’s Million Dollar Gamble
My investigative workshop in j-school did a collaborative story on VLT gambling in Nova Scotia. It was a messy, frustrating process at times, but the end result was the coolest, most important thing I was involved with at King’s. My job was to track down people who had been affected by gambling, and go around the province interviewing them. The story won the Canadian Association of...
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Minas Basin: Taking leadership role in global...
Published in the Nova Scotia Business Journal, March 2011, which you can see here.
Protecting the environment and increasing revenue can seem like opposing goals, but one Nova Scotia paper company is achieving both at the same time. Minas Basin Pulp and Power sells carbon credits to buyers across North America, making money and helping other groups reach their carbon-reduction goals.
In a...
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African Nova Scotian organizations take lead role...
This was my first story for the Nova Scotia Business Journal in January 2011. You can see the full edition here.
Black cultural groups are gaining a competitive edge in time for the summer tourism season. The Black Business Initiative (BBI), along with provincial partners, has launched the Cultural Tourism Project, a program that will help African Nova Scotian organizations promote themselves as...
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Adrian Fish: A Buddhist of the Next Generation
This is a profile I did during my internship at Shambhala Sun magazine in 2010. You can see the post on their SunSpace blog here.
The current issue of the Shambhala Sun offers a look at young Buddhists and the issues, styles, and passions they’re bringing to their spiritual practice.
Here, Laura MacKenzie introduces us to Adrian Fish, a young Buddhist photographer. While working on a photography...
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Lives Lived: Margaret Vickery
Published in the 2010 edition of Tidings, the University of King’s College magazine. You can see the entire edition here.
Friends, family and former colleagues remember Margaret Catherine Vickery as an outgoing, nurturing woman, and a central character at the University of King’s College.
Vickery worked at King’s from 1979 to 1996 as a switchboard operator and secretary for the Bursar, Donald...
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LIBEL THAW
This was my honours project in the last year of my journalism degree. It was published in the King’s Journalism Review in the fall of 2009.
You can read it in the KJR here.
Truth can be hard to prove in court. A new defence could help journalists fight defamation suits if they prove they did everything they could to get it right.
In 1994, Harvey Cashore helped break one of the biggest...
An Introduction
Hello there. I’ve owned this domain since I was at journalism school, and a prof instructed us all to go buy our names as domains, because eventually, we would need them. I never did much with mine, but today, I wake like the Kraken! I’ll be putting up some stories that I’ve done, and hopefully posting more. Recipes, or essays, or comics, or photos! Who can say? How very...
October 2011
6 posts
Today I visited with the lovely @sugarskull33 and made a marinade for chicken.
RT @alythomson: Looking to speak with someone who has experienced damage to their home after a storm. Juan, White Juan, whatever. Retwee …
Spent a fine day with @SavourtheSea, had lunch with his family. Now, to sleep. No rats tonight, please. #dreamrequests
RT @firecatkitty: Violence against women is not a women’s issue. It’s a community issue.
RT @Open_File: Student paper in Halifax said no way to transphobic ad when contacted about buying space: http://t.co/YTFr9LrC
Views get $1 for McGill Goodman Cancer Research Centre. Best old men dance. http://t.co/JQjONFyT
September 2011
8 posts
Watched my first on-TV episode of Parks and Rec. Blustered at my dad to save his questions for commercials.
RT @Open_File: @monicahamburg @Pinkaface @aricj @drewgough Important: We corrected report of HFX paper being offered transphobic ad http …
Watched all of The Help thinking the white girl was Emma Stone. It sure looked like Emma Stone. But it wasn’t! #fancythat
I wonder what part of my brain invents voices for the people I have never heard speak?
I hate having to listen to every damn saved message just to hear the most recent one. Also, my rice just exploded. #grr
Watched Bad Teacher and first ep of Parks and Rec with @SavourtheSea. Good visit. Now: apple crisp!
RT @azizansari: Watch Parks and Rec Season 4 tonight at 830 on NBC and meet the new Tom Haverford aka MASTER OF SWAGAMONIES. #ParksandRe …
Oh god, let your cat in! Your cat sounds so sad! #dearneighbours
August 2011
6 posts
Politics and funeral felt like strange bedfellows there, but that’s really the only way it could be. Rest in peace, Jack. #Laytonfarewell
RT @MsJoyFG: To all the people broken hearted over @jacklayton, writing farewell messages to him: Please vote in the next election. That …
Wanna go to Vegas? http://t.co/bW8OB2n
Going through piles of paper I’ve kept since junior high. I need to learn how to use a scanner.
RT @markmarklittle: I’m becoming a jetsetter! Not in the good way. In the rare dog-breed way. #ItHappens #PeopleChange #SomeBecomeDogs # …
If you think there’s a problem with leaks/insulation in your bathroom, pay for the big permanent fix if you can. It’s so much agro. #trustme
May 2011
14 posts
Saw Tower of London and Tate Modern. First day of rain after unbroken sunshine. #onlyfair Bussing to Glasgow tomorrow! http://t.co/1rsEeUv
I would really like for my packpack to be only 75% full. Apparently not enough to take stuff out, though. #whataboutsouvenirs
Charles Darwin is featured on British money. Neat!
Dreamt a sizable, intelligent rodent was plaguing my bungalow in Cape Breton. He kept getting in the beds! Ugh #didntsleepwell
When Parents Text: DARE http://t.co/FbGRUhd
Tomorrow will be the most structured day I’ve had in a dog’s age. I’m looking forward to it.
I’m enjoying cooking so much more, now that the alternative is getting ready for this trip, which I find more difficult. #europe
It’d be really great if it didn’t rain all the time. I might want to leave my house then.
RT @kathleenemily88: @trevorhowlett Stoffer is the man. Show me another MP who, rather than replying to your email, calls you instead. # …
Mom’s writing to the priest - the M-Day cards at church aren’t worded to include my sister, a loving stepmother. #loveit #happymothersday
Off to brave the trip to Micmac by bus. Transferring buses, the horror! #butseriously
RT @MaryWilton: Josh Holloway you handsome son of a bitch.
Cat drama outside. REEEEEEER!
RT @MeganMCouture: Is it just me, or is Bert the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins totally hot? #chimchimcheree
April 2011
24 posts
You always find the best things. RT @thedannyaustin: http://bit.ly/lsXvrI Baby ducks are surprisingly badass
Reading a 1999 forum thread about women packing for travel. A lot of platform sandals and overall shorts being suggested.
Admiring a fork @sugarskull33 gave me in junior high. Elegantly painted black handle with pink sparkly tines, and a P for Pinka. #nostalgia
RT @kathleenemily88: Because people don’t use PP for anything other than abortion, right? - MP: Tories defunding Planned Parenthood http …
Now, gone to Cape Breton for Easter.
RT @SavourTheSea: One month from today! That’s when @pinkaface and I are leaving. This is crazy! So soon.
Hm. Today is not a great day for me, energywise.
Are aerosol cans (say, for hair products) recyclable?