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Dance of the Happy Shades Book Review

Alice Munro
These short stories bring me right back to childhood in small-town Ontario. A generation or two removed from my experience, but I recognize my own stories in hers. She does not gloss over the boredom, or pain, or jealousy, or resignation of the human condition.

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The Jetpack plugin is a must-have for almost any WordPress website. It may be bloated with all kinds of crap you don't need, but it always has one or two features you absolutely do need. And it tends to do those things quite well (security protection, stats, social media sharing). It's no wonder …

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Reflections on the 2016 Green Party Convention

Last weekend, I spent three days in Ottawa's downtown Delta hotel running on adrenaline and idealism. I was socially, mentally, and intellectually exhausted by the time Julia and I left town on the VIA train Monday morning. And I don't regret it for a second. I helped out with the Green Party's …

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Mapping Green priorities

Today's the first day of the Green Party's biannual convention. Julia and I are in Ottawa and we're excited to be part of policymaking and seeing what this whole convention business is all about. Ahead of the actual convention, all the Green Party members were invited to vote on 13 policy …

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