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My Winnipeg is a beautiful movie. While the storytelling is occasionally awkward, the subject matter is profound and the story universal. This 'docu-fantasia' follows Guy Maddin's obsession with escape from small-town Winnipeg - and ultimately why he can't. As such, it had the possibility to descend into nostalgic pap, but it doesn't, and that's what makes it so wonderful. It's a journey into the

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Some days I wish there was the time to pontificate like there once was. Take this latest sack of excrement from my favourite moron: "Hillier, a Progressive Conservative MPP who once led the provincial landowners' movement, said the problem is related to provincial legislation such as the Clean Water Act, the provincial policy statement on land use and other "stupid" measures that restrict rural

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As of November 9, 2007, Levitt and Sons, proud purveyors of Levittown and quintessential cookie-cutter suburbia, has abruptly gone bankrupt. As the bodies of the American housing bubble begin to pile up, one has to ask... what's so special about Manhattan? Happy New Year.

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Urban Morphology Online Journals. 1997-2001

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My next Tiger's game will certainly include a trip to this place.

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Who would have thought the Star would debase itself with such insensitive drivel: In the days before the killings, Benoit and his wife argued over whether he should stay home more to take care of their mentally retarded 7-year-old son, according to an attorney for the WWE wrestling league. As we all know, the proper term has been 'intellectual disability' since the Conference of '86. Oh dear

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Well, I see it's been three months since I posted last. Amazing what a new job and a 100 acre farm will do to you. Although, it isn't like much has changed... the London Fog is still all about the cheese, Edey's still frothed about the Frenchmen, and the Eponist is posting as frequently as I. Frankly there's not much to say... just wondering really if my blogger account was still active.

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As predicted right here on the Velvy back in January 2005, Mr. Randy Hillier - professed savior of all Rural Ontario - is indeed running for provincial office. While we predicted the riding of Ottawa West-Nepean back then, Mr. Hillier has instead set his glorious eyes on the newly formed Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington. A hodgepodge of locales consisting mainly of commie Lanark County

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Fresh from the Edey blogroll dungpile, I am putting up this choicey lump of bullshit for posterity's sake... simply because I can. It reminds me of the time the Dutchman's shit sprayer went haywire and coated the entire side of our 60' high barn. The first comment is kinda funny though.

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The SCRCA has announced the 2007 installment of the great Sydenham River Canoe Race as Sunday, April 22nd. This year should be excellent. After discussions with the Masteraid crew, it has been decided that the race itself will be a mere leg of a much greater 3-4 day journey. 50+km from Napier to Florence. A detailed trip log will be in order.

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Hey 'Canada's New Government', you suck. Bring back the Collections. --- In related news, resident rube retires and the King has a capital idea.

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The venerable Fraser-Hickson is closing January 31st. After 121 years of service to the working-class neighbourhoods of NDG, this privately endowed public library - the first public library in Montreal - is broke. Primarily volunteer-run and community based, a three-year municipal funding agreement dried up in October leaving the mainly Anglo facility in the position of depleting its endowment

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While researching a trip to New York this weekend, I came across this. Equally applicable to Toronto.

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It has been a raucous year for the Auld League. From reprehensible imports to ‘suspended’ franchises, 2006 has understatedly been an undistinguished season. My Tabbies posted one of the worst campaigns in memory, an excruciatingly drawn-out exercise only tempered by the Boatmen’s self-ruination in the Eastern Final. Legends retired, expired and perspired. A Commissioner was overthrown and rule

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Toronto Municipal Election Redux, courtesy of Spacing. * Also note the much contested Brooke-Alvinston spectacle.

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Christopher Moore - 1867: How the Fathers Made A Deal, p.251 The 1860s suggest powerfully that the problem of the 1990s (and moreso today - ed.) lies less with parliamentary government than with the fact that it has largely ceased to function in Canada. When the (1997) election was over, what seemed missing from Canadian politics was that dead, and dismissed, and derieded concept from Victorian

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With better things to do these past two weeks, my re-entrance into civilized society was highlighted with the news that Garth Turner was inexplicably sacked. Amid the rampant censuring of the Reformed Reform Party command-control machine (interpreted as 'party discipline' by some), Garth Turner often served as the lone constituent voice in a party which has taken perversion of parliamentary

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Thomas Jefferson - Notes on the State of Virginia, p.164-165 Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators

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I'd considered a 'First 100-esque' diatribe. Yet on the heel of 'Red Friday', I ask Bev... where's the abortion debate... the Wheat Board showdown... senate reform? In effect, the burning issues of 'thirteen unlucky years of appaling pillage' that brought us this minority government in the first place. Is the domestic agenda being forced off the radar? UPDATE: As per the comments, a

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With cup of coffee in hand, I found myself climbing a loaded hay wagon this cool morning to enjoy something I haven't seen in a while:

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In the pseudo-intellectual world of land-use planning, the most undesirable job is working the neighbourhoods. Those low-density places that visionaries, professionals and the public proclaim as the backbone of a city, yet secretly malign as dull, conservative and uninteresting. In policy, the Neighbourhood designation in Toronto is distinctive as it ensures that new development will respect and

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In the spirit of summer... I nominate this place - the southwest corner of Sherwood Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road. How often does one walk along a dreary public sidewalk, only to be engulfed by an overflowing 'private' garden?

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[...] To sum up: As far as I'm concerned, if the CBC, our own Public Network, will not reconsider their refusal to air a Stompin' Tom Special, they can take their wonderful offer of letting me sing a song as a guest on some other program, AND SHOVE IT. STILL A "PROUD CANADIAN". Signed: Stompin' Tom Connors O.C., LL. D., Litt.D.

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With my kinfolk back home reconfiguring Crank Radios, I'm left here in the urban jungle realizing the simpler inanities of life through this here internet. Thanks to Metafilter, I've discovered the joys of the Digital Library of Appalachia. It's music section is beyond reproach (including search by Kentucky county). With over 9000 mp3's of the finest in back porch pickin', this is a true

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Amid the spotty coverage, Alex Jones 'bullhorns' the Bilderberg and was apparently nearly deported for his troubles. "You have more power and money than you could ever spend. You own the Central Banks that print the money. Why then do you continue to try and dehumanize us? Why do you put mercury in the vaccines? 'Stanisodium' fluoride in the water? Why? Why do you put cancer viruses in the

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