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Welcome to my journal; it is a self-indulgent collection of some of the writings that I have accumulated on my hard-drive over the years. Designed for my self-gratification and hopefully for your entertainment. It is work in progress and will be updated regularly.
Any comments you have about any of this content do not hesitate to email me at ben@eagle.ca As the great baseball player Cliff "Heathcliffe" Johnson once said
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Letters written to Editors |
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Columns printed in the Cobourg Star |
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How to stop the feuding between the two Towns |
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28th Oct. "Crossing guards" |
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Letter to the Cobourg Star: A solution offered to the hospital planners |
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Will Port Hope's desire for local health-care put the boots to public health-care? |
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A rebuttal to Bill Johnson: "Be Fair!" |
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Is it a Tourism Dispute or a "Family Feud?" |
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Campaign Donations and their dangers |
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Nov 26th Amalgamation: let's have a public discussion |
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Ron Dabor is Wrong |
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Dec 13th Disconnect: buzzword or fact? |
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We have dropped the ball on waste managementNEW |
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Dec 27th Hope for the Future |
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Jan 11th Are we such bad people? | ||
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Jan 24th A public contradiction! | ||
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Feb 7th A prediction for election 2000 | |
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The privatisation of Hydros |
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Feb 21st"It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings" |
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Can the public ever have real public ownership? |
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Mar 6th "The downtown needs visionaries!" |
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The Waterfront and democracy |
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Mar 20th "Danger: Business at Work!" |
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Apr 3rd "Signs of the Times" | ||
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Apr 17th "Pfft goes the PUC" | |
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Why the hydro rates have to go up |
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May 1st "Back to the Future" |
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May 15th "New blood will clot until the system is fixed" | ||
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May 29th"You asked I respond, in the skateboard debate" | ||
| Published in the Colborne Chronicle |
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June 12th "Still on track" | |
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The impact of WalMart on the area |
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June 26th "Crossing guards, the heart of the community" |
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A comic review, "Maxie & Mitch" |
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July 10th "Walmart at first glance" |
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A day at the Alliance picnic! |
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July 24th "You get what you pay for" |
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Colborne gets suckered? |
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August 7th "The confusion about Economic Development" |
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The joys of Voice Recognition software |
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August 14th "Walmart for the third time" |
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Colborne's new tax structure |
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August 21st "The voters are being cheated" |
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Hydro Rates are going downNEW |
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September 4th "Some ideas for the DownTown" |
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A raid during the War of 1812NEW |
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September18th "Election thoughts" |
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A story of a trip to mexico NEW |
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October 3rd "Big changes coming to the workplace" |
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October 16th "The first battle of education has been lost" | ||
Other interesting links I visit often
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"EYE" magazine |
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The "Las Vegas Sun" |
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"NOW" magazine |
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HRDC..jobs posted in the last 48 hours |
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"Hansard" page of the Ontario Legislative |
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The best "web-crawler" I have found (metacrawler) |
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The "Drudge" report |
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My alumni site (DYRMS) |
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Lee Valley Tools |
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Local news from the "London Free Press" |
