The Lament
3I was walking Judd the Rockweiler this evening. It was raining rather heavily and we were on one of those back alleys that exist in our neighbourhood of James Bay. For no reason that I can think of, no connection other than perhaps the more …
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BC Provincial Cowardice in the Face of Almagamation
Victoria, BC. Home of 13 communities, three hundred and fifty thousand people, seven different police forces and thirteen fire departments. Yup. 7 police and 13 fire departments. An amalgamation of the 13 aforementioned communities should have happened years ago. The polite types suggest the provincial …
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Cycle Observations on a Victoria Day
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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Digestible Chunks
Hiya Reader! Henceforth, the CommonDawg posts will be shorter and hopefully, more to the point. We are all busy with, it seems, less and less time to sit down and enjoy the pleasures of reading fantastic articles like mine. Please let me know what you …
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The Ingredients of the Decent Man
The decent man: 1. Is not perfect, 2. Will make mistakes, 3. Fibs and even lies occasionally, 4. Frequently falls off the pedestal, 5. Most often tries to do the right thing . . .. 6. but often doesn’t, 7. Possesses courage . .. . …
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Dig Deeper!
CommonDawg is starting to wonder, if there might not be more to this affair of the Quebec students demonstrating against higher tuition fees. The whole affair seems to have grown far beyond this one issue, with much of the Quebec and other Canadian public involved. …
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Whistler: A Little Piece of Haven
Here Judd the Rockweiler and I are currently hanging in our little slice of haven – Whistler. And it has become a haven for me at least, because of it’s increasingly ‘year-roundedness‘. In the twenty seven years I have been coming up here, I am …
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The New and Improved CommonDawg
Welcome to the new and improved ‘CommonDawg’ – finally! During my three quarters of a year in Afghanistan, I let the former site go. This was disappointing, as Nat and Melissa had done a wonderful on that one as well. I had hopes of continuing …
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I Lament the Porch
I do. I lament the porch. Or rather, I lament the passing of the use of the classical porch versus the purely decorative ones we see now.
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Belly to Belly
So here’s little Jimmy working at the Winter Olympic Games in Whistler. I’m employed as a media liaison guy with Olympic Broadcasting Services. One of the menial roles I played was to work in the ‘mixing zone’, where the athletes come through after competing, to …
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