Opinion

"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making." (John Milton, Aereopagitica)

The LCBO's empty “promise to the planet”

Our National Spot - Karl Marx, Conrad Black and Canada's Self-loathing Newspaper

A Beer Drinker's Bill of Rights - Back to Hammurabi!

Alliance party = All yap (certain) - Anagrams for Stockwell Day

The National Capital Commission - Enemy of the Dominion?

Who Are You With? - A Citizen Grows Cynical


Genevieve MacKinnon

Notice of death

Genevieve remembered (eulogy)

For Genny (poem)

From her friends

Samples of Genevieve's art

Photo

Photographs

  • Jessie MacKinnon with cousin Jack holding Jessie's brother Archie Malcolm MacKinnon, family farm near Hillsburgh Ontario, 1917
  • Chester MacKinnon, his brother Percy, and their father Malcolm (standing), Bess McDowell, Mary (Percy's wife), Mary Thomson MacKinnon and Dan - 1917
  • MacKinnon clan, Hillsburgh Ontario, 1917 - Chester and Ella MacKinnon are at the top; then Bess McDowell (who married Chester three years later), Percy's wife Mary (with her hand to her face), Mary Thomson MacKinnon and husband Malcolm, with Dan MacKinnon in front
  • Malcolm and Mary Thomson MacKinnon - 50th wedding anniversary, 1917
  • Essays

    Icebergs and illusions

    The need for deception: fabulating to one's own ends

    The Catholic "Civil Rights" League, the Roman Catholic church, and the nature of civil rights

    A tribute to Nabokov: To Vlad the impaler, a timeless toast

    Enabling the creation of new knowledge: Knowledge management that matters

    Miracles abounding: a brief meditation on miracles

    Why Ontario doesn't exist: Ontario, phantom province

    The family log: the truth of selective observation

    To learn, leaven loss: on the value of loss

    Idling in time: a brief paean to idleness

    Ian Filewod: In memoriam: Ian Filewod recalled in Nigeria, Europe and Ottawa


    Poetry


    Just Like Blood

    Translation

    Haiku

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