Lew lives in British Columbia and he sent me a note this morning. Another foot today in Campbell River - this makes 6 in all. There are also 8 young men; in the same time frame gone missing???Cheers LewLew knows I'm following the severed foot watch in BC. My

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While I was cut off from the world, there was news from Kirkland Island, British Columbia.  A human foot with its foot shoe intact has washed ashore. In February, I wrote about the three severed right feet that had washed ashore near Nanaimo over the previous six months.  Now we

Browsing the news at CBC.ca, there was a headline I had to read twice.  Actually, I had to read it three times. Sean Avery starts internship at Vogue

In late December 2004, I wrote about the 23,000 who perished in the Boxing Day tsunami in south and east Asia.  That 23,000 total ended up being a small fraction of the actual number of casualties.  Over 225,000 died as a result of that Indian Ocean earthquake.

I checked my news feeds for a post-lunch news check.  The CBC Toronto feed is full of doom and gloom, which is typical of the news in this day and age.  No news is good news. Here are the six most recent headlines. Gas to soar to $2.25 in

If mainstream media outlets like CityTV and CBC start going heavy on The Tragically Hip, Homer Simpson quotes, Bill Barilko lore and lots of lists, you know who to blame.

Just about everything I ever knew about Tibet I learnt from the Beastie Boys.  I doubt I'm alone. I was (and am) a big Beastie Boys fan, and back in 1994 they sampled Tibetan monks on Ill Communication.  The Milarepa Fund fund was created to disperse royalties to these monks

On Valentine's Day, Steve Kazmierczak killed five people and wounded sixteen others before shooting and killing himself at Northern Illinois University.  As usual after a school shooting, people hit the web searching for digital breadcrumbs and signs as to what went wrong. As with Cho Seung-Hui and his alarming one-act

The Gulf islands near Nanaimo, British Columbia have a foot problem. Three severed right feet have washed ashore there in the past six months.  The latest was at Valdes Island while the two other right feet were found at Gabriola Island and Jedidiah Island. All three right feet were in

The juxtaposition is jarring.  Tonight I watched my three year old daughter perform a ballet routine.  Watching three year olds dance ballet is just about the cutest thing on the face of the earth.  With every twirl and every step I beamed with pride.  Then, my thoughts turned to Aqsa

About a year ago, I test drove StarP.M., a free, downloadable afternoon daily newspaper in PDF format.  Every weekday afternoon since I've enjoyed this little paper with up-to-date news.  StarP.M. has been cancelled and will make their last issue available on October 17, 2007. The email I got

It's April 1993 and the Leafs are at Maple Leaf Gardens hosting the Detroit Red Wings in the Norris Division Semifinals.  It's the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the entire city is on the Maple Leafs bandwagon. Roberto Alomar, the best player on the 1992 World Series champion Blue Jays, is

I've been following the Steve Fossett search closely as I'm fascinated by his disappearance.  Fossett took off September 3rd and hasn't been seen or heard from since.  Crews are now combing a rugged area near Death Valley going on new leads from Air Force experts. Fossett is as experienced a

Despite what Dubya may have heard, Nelson  Mandela is still alive. In a speech defending his administration's Iraq policy, Bush said former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's brutality had made it impossible for a unifying leader to emerge and stop the sectarian violence that has engulfed the Middle Eastern nation."I

We all remember the crap storm that brewed last November when O.J. Simpson was set to release his book "If I Did It".  HarperCollins pulled the book and over the summer a federal bankruptcy judge awarded rights to the book to Ronald Goldman's family to help satisfy a $38

A couple of sports headlines caught my attention this week because I knew the names, but I knew the names as they belonged to completely different people. First there was news that Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson completed a 25-day hold out.  I know Larry Johnson, but I

Prior to his suicide last weekend, I had never heard of Chris Benoit.  I was a big WWF fan in the 80s, and I knew the big names that have come since like The Rock and Steve Austin, but I'm so far removed from the silliness now I completely missed

Let the armchair psychoanalysis begin.  The Virginia Tech shooter has a name and factoids about Cho Seung-Hui are starting to filter in. We're learning he was quiet and disturbed.  Evidence of his disturbed nature comes from accusations he set fire to his dorm, stalked women on campus and wrote alarming

In 2007, the ideal form of communication with university students is email.  People of that generation are always connected, even when out and about they're receiving email on their cell phone, Blackberry or other PDA.  If you need to share time sensitive email with a large group of students, send

The deadliest school attack in U.S. history took place this morning at Virginia Tech.  At the time of this writing 22 are dead, but it sounds like that number will rise. We don't yet know the name of the shooter, but I'm going to jump to the conclusion it's

You've all heard by now that several suspicious packages found attached to bridges in Boston earlier this week weren't bombs but were ads for Adult Swim. They were magnetic lights that comprised a guerrilla marketing effort in ten cities.  Apparently, these lite-bright-like figures were in Boston for two to three

It was a strange day for news.  First there was that gas-like odour spooking residents of New York City.  Then there were bird deaths in Austin that had the police shutting down ten blocks downtown.  Then, there was that package in Miami that gave the area its second terrorism scare

I remember as a fifteen year old feeling awfully proud that I had negotiated my way up to $5 an hour.  I was working at the CNE as a games booth attendant and I think minimum wage at the time was $3.85.  $5 for an hours work was sweet.

A while back I stopped linking to articles in The Toronto Star to protest their horrible URI structure.  Fellow bloggers know exactly what I'm talking about. Part of their newly unveiled redesign is a decent URI structure.  It's about time!  My protest is over. I actually came within a whisker