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    Mr. Mandela

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    Nelson Mandela has passed and I feel a ‘gap’ or an emptiness in the world’s energy.  It isn’t just all the wonderful kudos and expressions of sadness.  No, it is more, much more than that.  This gentleman epitomized forgiveness – he walked the talk and …

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    Ho, Ho, Bah!!

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    It’s okay now.  It is early December and I am out of  – what has been charitably described as – my Grinch/Scrooge mode.   And it is true I suppose.  Every year, I get bent more and more out of shape, by the increasing earliness …

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  • Horse and Carriage in Victoria

    Horses and Carriages – The Conundrum

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    Walking Judd the Rockweiler the other morning, when a horse and carriage clip-clopped by.  I love that sound and there are several of these carriages that do business in Victoria.  I love horses. I love riding them,smelling them,feeding them,grooming them and rubbing their velvety muzzles. …

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    Cycle Observations on a Victoria Day

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    Hopped on the bicycle to ride down to Canadian Tire today: Saw one fellow sitting on a downtown sidewalk, with his hat on the ground in front of him, hoping for donations from the tourists.  Very close to him was a busker, ‘earning’ her donations. …

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  • Gordon Campbell Tokyo May 2010

    What Are The BC Liberals Thinking?!

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    The BC Liberals have fallen into the Guergis-Jaffer trap.  That is, they started to believe their own press.  Whereas Helena Guergis and her husband epitomized ‘entitlement’, the BC Libs have long thought themselves ‘omnipotent’.  I call it the ‘we are so far ahead of the …

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    A Victoria Winter

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    I have a definite love-hate relationship with Victoria, British Columbia.  Take today for example.  It is 18+ celsius and sunny – the perfect Victoria winter day.  Judd the dog and I walked down to Fisherman’s Wharf Park, so he could watch his seal friends beg …

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