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Why You Should Help Save Michael Schmidt’s Life

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:38:31 +0000

As you may or may not know, Ontario farmer Michael Schmidt is on a hunger strike, defending his right to distribute raw milk. Michael has been fighting a battle with lawmakers in Ontario for at least 5 years. He has (…)

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What if Bob Parsons’ elephant-killing video was an April Fools’ Day hoax?

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:44:56 +0000

Bob Parsons, chief executive and founder of the Web services company GoDaddy, got in hot water last Thursday after he posted a video online of him killing an elephant. I got in hot water last April Fools' Day after I posted a picture of me killing a deer named Rutherford.

My articles for the U of T Mississauga News section

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:45:33 +0000

I have been writing for the U of T Mississauga News section since December. This is not, mind you, a permanent gig, but rather the occasional freelance assignment. And I love it. It gives me a chance to...

Does not helping others make you a bad person?

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:53:49 +0000

As a U of T Psychology minor, I’ve long thought Psychology 101 should be a mandatory course, not just in university, but beginning in high school. The recent death of Judy Tak Fong Lam Chiu, a 66-year-old dementia patient who (…)

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I made it

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:32:19 +0000

My NaNoWriMo

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:02:03 +0000

MagicJack: the conclusion

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:04:25 +0000

I have to take a break from working on NaNoWriMo to report on the outcome of my email to Dan Borislow, founder and president of MagicJack. The outcome is, there is no outcome. Mr. Borislow has failed to reply to my email. His company, too, failed to reply to a bug report I filed through its “support” system.

My first NaNoWrimo

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:40:48 +0000

It’s hard to believe, but 2010’s NaNoWrimo begins tomorrow. For the uninitiated, National Novel Writing Month is a “seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. (…) The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.” Furthermore, “NaNoWriMo is (…)

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Now that’s good customer service

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:33:48 +0000

Yesterday I received an email from Netflix, the video-streaming company I signed up with as soon as it opened up shop in Canada. Here’s what the email read: Dear Alain, Yesterday, you may have had trouble instantly watching TV episodes (…)

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Does cheap have to suck?

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:27:16 +0000

Like everybody else, I like a good deal. And like everybody else, or at least everybody I know, I no longer have much use for a landline. In fact, I wouldn’t even have a landline if it weren’t because of my (…)

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