After the Mont-Royal disappointment, we continued looking. We began settling in for the long haul. After all, it was coming up on a year of looking and we hadn’t found the place of our dreams. On the first Sunday in June, Carrie was out of town but I saw a few promising places in the …
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Baseball scandal
I know I’m supposed to be scandalized by the latest revelations, assuming they’re true (right now, they are unsubstantiated allegations). And yet, I can’t help feel that there’s a kind of arbitrary logic at work here. Some kinds of drugs are okay, others are not. Last I checked, nobody is going after University of Florida …
Soon Available en Español
Finally, a language other than English that I can sort of pronounce.
R is for Responsibility
Yesterday’s Gazette featured an article entitled “Professor Shortage Looming, Feds Told: Schools Urged to Boost Post-Grad Ranks by 35%” The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada made its annual pitch for more federal money by saying that we try to lure in more than 150,000 postgraduate students because nearly have the country’s 40,000 professors …
Deep Reflections on AHCS X-Mas Party
Coolest. Department. Ever.
Real Estate Part VII: Bad Taste in Love
Cast back out into the forest, we went back to looking for unusual places. One popped up in the paper that seemed intriguing. On Mont-Royal Est, it was a couple blocks east of the heart of the Plateau, not far from the Mont-Royal Metro and located near lots of shops and services. There was even …
Real Estate Part VI: The Spring of Our Discontent
I’ve decided that it’s worth concluding this series in proper form even though it’s been awhile because at least 3 of this blog’s readers (which, for all I know, is a good portion of the readership) asked for it. To see where we left off in the story, have a look at Real Estate Part …
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