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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Today our city “leaders” voted to go ahead with a new Johnson Street Bridge project that excludes rail. See this article for skeletal information: Victoria council decides not to include rail as part of the new Johnson Street bridge. See also Ross Crockford’s piece in yesterday’s paper, No need for panic on bridge decision, which […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
It snowed a lot today, unexpectedly, and the usual cowbell chorus arose: “Victoria grinds to a halt.” Here’s what’s wrong with it.
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
I was rooting around in my Google documents just minutes ago and came across two 2006 blog post drafts I’d parked there. I published them to my blog at the time, but hadn’t re-viewed them since then: All Eyes (Oct.22, 2006) and Winter will come soon enough (Oct.25, 2006). Both posts convince me of two […]
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The irony doesn’t escape me. A couple of days ago I posted photos of bad art, and today I’m going all soft in the knees over a spectacular sunset – which I captured on my iPod Touch and then massaged via Camera+ (an excellent iPhone/ iPod Touch app), bringing out what some might call the […]
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Tags: sunset
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
While I promised myself, for sanity’s sake, to forgo paying attention to city politics, the City of Victoria‘s endorsement last night of a transportation proposal has me back at square one. Meaning what? Meaning I’m scratching my head, wondering what’s in the water around here. The endorsed plan – proposed by BC Transit – would […]
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Tags: buses, johnson_street_bridge, rapid_transit, trams
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Are you a huge Tolkien fan? Yeah, me neither… That said, however, if you’re in Victoria Canada, you should see Kaleidoscope Theatre‘s production of The Hobbit, currently playing at the McPherson Theatre. The remaining three shows are this Friday – that’s tomorrow – and Saturday at 7pm, and then again on Sunday at 2pm. Kaleidoscope’s […]
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Tags: kaleidoscope_theatre, the_hobbit, tolkien
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
I spent about two hours at UVic this afternoon, where the Washington DC-based TEDwomen sessions were being live-streamed. I came in for Session 2: Life’s Symphony, featuring (among others) Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook); Mona Eltahawy (journalist); Tony Porter (educator); and Lauren Zalaznick (television exec). I was fortunate to have heard about the live-cast (via […]
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Tags: feminism, ted, tedwomen, uvic
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Brilliant. Maybe the self-styled “chairman of the board” will take a boo. And learn something. Click on image below or here.
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Tags: johnson_street_bridge, xtranormal
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
When people say that Victoria British Columbia is “a small town,” I think they’re dead wrong. I understand what those people are getting at, but I think they’re completely missing the mark: because, with a Capital Regional District (CRD) population of over 350,000 people, it’s not a small town by Canadian standards. We punch above […]
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