Tag: culture
member name: Rory M.
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September 23, 2007 09:12 PM EDT --
Following is a short photo-essay on my little part of God's green acre, especially the Eagle's Nest Park near my home in Bancroft. My family who all still live in major urban centres have . . . more
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July 25, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
In mid June I began a project I called The Gather 30 Day Countdown.
We have all seen fellow Gatherers get disillusioned, enraged, outraged, plain old pissed off and sign off the site permanently . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . . more
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July 11, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
The good old hockey game, as Stompin' Tom Connors observed, is the best game you can name. Canadians always have difficulty defining their national identity and finding commonalities that unite them. . . . more
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . . more
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . . more
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . . more
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . . more
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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November 14, 2007 10:37 PM EST --
Here is the big debate that no one is really engaging the public in, and no politician will dare. While the religious right wing in America has forced the abortion debate onto the agenda, and the . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
Jimmy Carter’s latest book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) is causing quite a stire as various defenders of Israel scream blue-murder (or at least hint of anti-Semitism) and recently triumphant . . . more
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July 17, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
"The Good old hockey game is the best game you can name
and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game."
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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September 16, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
We've all heard of WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), or YUPpies (Young Urban Professionals) or of DINKs (Dual-Income, No Kids).
Well, I have a new social acronym, one I've created . . . more
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November 12, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Given the title of this piece, it could be a charming little story about forest creatures, about a gentle but eerie sounding Loon who lived on a quiet lake and magnificent Buck , or Stag, who came . . . more
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July 08, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
The mid-life crisis has long been widely recognized as a common stage of maturity and growth in the lives of humans.
There comes a time when a person recognizes that the time remaining to them is likely . . . more
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July 15, 2007 12:22 AM EDT --
I had just turned 15 years old. the year was 1974. A friend I'd known since grade 5, when we were 10, asked me to come over to his house to listen to a new album he'd bought.
Now this . . . more
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July 16, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
What is Gather?
What does this cyber-community amount to?
There are many possible answers to these questions and many of them will be true even though they may seem contradictory. Because . . . more
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January 20, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
I was leaving a grocery store this morning, you know the kind, where you have to insert a quarter to free up a shopping cart. I guess they figure that if you're going to steal a shopping cart that . . . more
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