I’m not really a fan of any of the political alternatives either, but… common, this is the Liberal Party leader? Michael Coren has an entertaining report from a recent appearance Dion made on his television show. Within the first 10 minutes of the discussion he made several mentions of God… […]
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After Melbourne, we flew into Ayer’s Rock. We were shuttled to the resort complex, which is the only place to stay. Except, we didn’t yet have a place to stay. We got off by the information centre and found a room at the Desert Gardens Hotel. We booked a sunset […]
We’ve been busy and are flying out to Ayer’s Rock in a few hours, but here’s a quick summary from the last few days. June 26/27: We stopped over in Canberra (photos) for a night on the way from Sydney to Melbourne, saw the Australian Institute of Sport (photos) and […]
We’ve arrived. After parting with family in Toronto, we barely made it past airport security. That is, as Heather picked up her bags to walk away after being cleared and she dropped her boarding pass and stepped on it. She was ready to keep walking too, if I hadn’t spotted […]
I’m posting this quickly from the Vancouver airport. I’ve thrown together a page at http://blaise.ca/australia as a home base for updates from my trip to Australia over the next month. There’s nothing really there yet, but there will be soon. I’ll be blogging intermittently and updating Twitter throughout the trip […]
I’m in the process of booking a hotel for World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney. I was having a bit of difficulty confirming which neighbourhood (if any) will be hosting the majority of the Youth Festival events. In Cologne (2005), activities were spread out between three cities, but in Toronto […]
Apparently, some people find it terrifying if their kids get some common sense advice about sex. As evidenced by Virginia Foxx’s pointed question, some people are against promoting restraint or abstinence no matter what the facts are. Quite frankly, that “freaks me out”. This is the “sneaky” and offensive video: […]
I encountered Catholics Come Home through a video posted on YouTube last week via AmP. Upon returning to YouTube to watch the video again, I noticed that it has been removed due to a copyright claim by Catholics Come Home Inc. The video was originally here. What is wrong with […]
The New York Times used to be an example of what not to do online, but they really cleaned up their act last year. Aside from dropping the pay-wall and diving head first into the open source community, they launched a ton of great blogs. With Pope Benedict XVI’s visit […]