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York Beltline Trail

Bowie Avenue Station, the western-most entrance to the York Beltline Trail, sits slightly north-west of Eglinton Avenue West and Caledonia. A long time ago, in another lifetime, I lived on Bowie, but several blocks east, at Bowie and Ronald. To get there, I took the Lansdowne 47B bus, left at Eglinton and Caledonia, then shuffled [...]

A walk along the Gibson Trail

A walk along what used to be an old railway line running east along the Nashwaak.
Obama & Co. have put up Change.gov, where they talk about the policies they’ll begin implementing in January.
CNN posted a story about a foreign government cracking both the Obama and McCain campaign computers looking for policy papers. Which government? [...]

Barack and roll

Canada voted a few weeks ago. Yet another non event in Canadian history. But last night people gathered at Yonge-Dundas Square to celebrate Obama’s victory: Welcome Back America. There had been suggestions as many as 1,000 people would turn up, armed with portable radios. Everyone was supposed to turn on their radios and broadcast simultaneously [...]

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