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Category Archives: Lanark County

More on Leaves

I wonder why my awesome piece of philo-journalism wasn’t cited!? Whose leaf is it anyway? Nov. 13, 2005. 01:28 PM KENNETH KIDD FEATURE WRITER Irina had just moved into her Scarborough townhouse when all those tornado-fuelled winds hit in August. Her home survived just fine, as did the maple tree on her front lawn. There [...]

This Land is My Land

Since moving in to a house that I neither own outright, but neither do I rent it, I’ve found myself becoming moderately petty bourgeoisie-fied and liberalized. (Both, obviously, bad things.) Right now in Lanark County, the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario, the maple trees (quite predictably; all other trees as well) are turning — red, [...]

Lanark County O.P.P.

I’ll pretend that this post has some sort of ‘professional’ or ‘theoretical’ interest. It doesn’t, but I’ll pretend. Let’s call it a critique of contemporary police powers in the post-9/11 era (an era, by the way, which is clearly over: the “Creative Arts Emmys” — the ones for best key grip, transportation captain, make-up artist [...]