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Annie! Annie! Are you… oh, never mind.

I believed everything I was told in my first CPR class, about 20 years ago — including the poignant story of the practice dummy, Annie. She was designed by a doctor and modelled on his daughter, who drowned and who might have been saved had onlookers only known...

Raise your own goddamn barn

CBC News – Study casts doubt on country and city clich?©s: Rural Canadians are almost four times as likely to know more of their neighbours but are no more likely to help them than their urban compatriots, a new study released on Tuesday by Statistics Canada...

Father’s Day

For those of us who won’t be able to pass on Father’s Day greetings this year, RossK does the job vicariously for us with a terrific, moving and, of course, thoroughly political post. Here’s the ending, but do go read the rest: I get the fact that,...

I’ve been shot!

It (gasp)… it was… (gurgle)… Kris Krug. Arrrrrrrgggg… (Annnnd scene.) He’s a talented photographer, event blogger and online thinker-type… not to mention a great guy.
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