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Sustainability, Ikea style

Posted by Zoom! on December 11, 2011, at 6:09 pm |

Chandler's dog, Willy

We went to Ikea on the way home from Chandler Swain’s house, where I had just purchased two lovely hand-crafted pottery bowls. Chandler Swain is my favourite potter. She lives and works out of a charming little house near Almonte. It is my dream to go stay in Chandler’s B&B one summer […]

I got in an actual fight

Posted by Zoom! on October 1, 2011, at 7:36 am |

Yesterday afternoon I was walking down Merivale Road, nursing a migraine, when the guy walking in front of me grabbed an election sign out of the grass and tossed it in the ditch. Moments later we were both standing at the intersection of Merivale and Baseline, and I said “You know, you’re not supposed to […]

A whole bunch of stuff

Posted by Zoom! on August 5, 2011, at 7:39 am |

The Baseline Cowboys raised $300 in empties and spare change for Christie Lake Kids on Wednesday! Rumour has it they’ve also volunteered to help out with Christie Lake’s cooking program. It seems everybody who meets the Baseline Cowboys has something to say about how likable they are.

Here’s a photo of them sitting in the […]

Roxanne Carr cell block footage released

Posted by Zoom! on July 28, 2011, at 10:22 am |

The videos of Roxanne Carr being checked into the Ottawa Police cell block are now public. You can see them here.

Roxanne Carr left the following comment on my blog, on the Bank Street Bully post, in December, 2008. I haven’t edited it at all, other than to add paragraph breaks for ease of reading.

My name […]

Fire the thugs

Posted by Zoom! on July 18, 2011, at 9:38 am |

Even I, who have a bit of a jaundiced eye when it comes to the behaviour of Ottawa’s police force as a whole, am surprised by how much police brutality has come to light since the Stacy Bonds incident. I can’t even keep up with it all here on the blog. I skipped the last […]

And yet another one

Posted by Zoom! on May 25, 2011, at 9:44 am |

Cellphone snatched by police, man claims.

Another year flashes before my eyes: 2010

Posted by Zoom! on January 2, 2011, at 10:31 am |

January

GC and I went to anti-prorogue rallies and Constable Eric Czapnikâ€™s funeral. We drove to Brockville where Grace fixed my socks. I acquired art from the Astronaut Love Triangle and GC built a scary fire. We tried to save the Hartman’s Piano, signed up for a creative writing course, got into Indian cooking, participated in […]

To be a good cop you have to be a decent human being

Posted by Zoom! on December 13, 2010, at 10:42 am |

I’m starting to feel ever so slightly sorry for the Ottawa police. Not all of them, mind you. Just the good apples. The ones who don’t abuse their power, kick homeless people, strip sex workers naked in public, beat anybody up, or sexually assault women in their custody.

And honestly, I do believe that there […]

Poll: The Chief's Choice

Posted by Zoom! on December 7, 2010, at 1:53 pm |

Police Chief Vern White has left the country to attend his own wedding and honeymoon. The timing is pretty awful, but he had no way of knowing in advance that his wedding date would conflict with the breaking loose of all hell for the Ottawa Police.

David Reevely says the Chief should have stayed home. That’s […]

I've gone viral

Posted by Zoom! on December 2, 2010, at 8:23 am |

I’ve been flattened by some disease. I don’t know if it’s a cold or a flu, but it has all the bells and whistles – fever, sore throat, throbbing gums, blocked ear, soul-racking cough, occasional vomiting, laryngitis. And THEN – on top of all that – I got a colossal three-day migraine, which finally ended […]

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