Dawn Wentzell

My Comments on the Peaker Plant in the Holland Marsh

Dawn Wentzell — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:48:16 +0000

This is a copy of comments submitted to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing regarding the Peaker Plant proposed for the Holland Marsh. Well, not proposed – underway, really, despite rules to protect the Marsh from this type of development, the unanimous voting against it by the Councillors of King Township, and the disapproval [...]

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Scammers, Spammers and Snake-Oil Salesmen

Dawn Wentzell — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:38:22 +0000

Scammers, spammers, snake-oil salesmen. The Internet is full of them. But up until last week, I hadn’t seen much existence of them in real life. Last week I attended Search Engine Strategies in Toronto. It was my first time actually attending an SES show, and they graciously invited me to speak (or, well.. do a site [...]

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Creating Custom Blog Pages in Wordpress

Dawn Wentzell — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:34:08 +0000

I’m posting this here mostly so I can remember how I did it. If you happen to find this useful yourself, then great One of the problems I commonly have with Wordpress is customizing archive-type pages. I usually want to put some piece of content above the archives — and need that content to [...]

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Spring Conference Schedule

Dawn Wentzell — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:33 +0000

Seems every time the other Outspoken ladies are at industry conferences, someone makes a comment that I’ve drawn the short straw again and been left behind. Funny, and makes me feel a little better about not being there, but we can’t all be galavanting around the continent all the time. No really, cuz we do [...]

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The Olympics? Heck Yeah I’m Excited!

Dawn Wentzell — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:04:33 +0000

There seems to be a lot of negativity surrounding this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Perhaps because some people are just disinterested, but I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we’re paying for them this year. It’s one thing when you just get to watch it on TV from [...]

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Am I Doing This All Wrong?

Dawn Wentzell — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:42:51 +0000

Last week, my twitter friend Andrew Norcross and several others launched Untemplater, a site encouraging GenY’ers* to shake up their lives and do what they want. I’m slightly insulted by their use of the GenY label, as — technically — I’m GenX, and the advice still applies to me. I’ll just pretend they write GenX as [...]

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Dawn Wentzell — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:26:15 +0000

This isn’t really a recipe, it’s an ode to chili. I love it. Really, I do. When I was a kid, I hated it. I absolutely dreaded the nights my mom would make chili con carne. I dunno what it was about the meal, but I could barely get it down. Now, I probably eat chili weekly. [...]

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Applying the KISS Principle

Dawn Wentzell — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:12:43 +0000

Keep it simple, stupid. I’ve been thinking about this idea quite a bit lately, and particularly how to apply it to my life. Since starting with Outspoken Media in October, I’ve been…well, busy. Really busy. I work long hours; Outspoken Media is a start up, so I knew that when I signed on. But in addition to [...]

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My Kitchen is Famous!

Dawn Wentzell — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:22:07 +0000

Ok well not really. But HGTV did write a post about me and some of the renos I’ve done on the kitchen for their Real People Reno series yesterday. You can check it out at Woman vs. Kitchen. Gotta say, it caught me kind of off guard. Last week during the Mike Holmes show they were [...]

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An Example of Evil Socialized Healthcare

Dawn Wentzell — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:09:35 +0000

While our friends to the south are debating the future of their country’s health care system, I thought I’d give a story of Canada’s health care from my point of view. One seemingly popular tactic of the GOP is it scare Americans into thinking that a Canadian-like health care system will only lead to death and [...]

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