Author: trevor

CLWPP Episode 16: Sochi, Slides, and Saudi

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Will is missing as the Olympics in Sochi carry on, so Spillway producer Trevor LaForce joins Greg to discuss the budget, Election Reform Act, the next Conservative campaign, and a new arms agreement with Saudi Arabia. If you like the show, please subscribe and rate us in iTunes and Stitcher or your favourite podcatcher! [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/spillway.ca/podcasts/clwpp/CLWPP16.mp3] iTunes | Stitcher | Download MP3 | RSS feed This week, we’re promoting our very own Jes Lacasse’s new book, Find your Inner Happy! It’s like Be More Awesome: The Book. It’s full of ways to get past all those mechanisms…

#mo365 Day 30: Textures

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So here’s a little look into my brain. As I walk, my eyes get stuck on really interesting textures. Anything remotely texturally complex, anything with contrasts, anything with layers, I’m focused on. Look at this lamp-post. Look at it. It’s glorious. You’ve got the core of the lamp-post, which is fairly smooth, bright concrete.  Porous, though. Pitted like honeycomb toffee. Then the casing, the bark of the thing, a sandy, pebbled surface, sandpaper begging to be touched. But the outer layer is cracked and scratched, because at some point a…

#mo365 Day 18: Lego!

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One of the toughest thing about not making buckets of money is that there are some things I absolutely love that just require a budget. My Lego addiction is one of them. It’s also amongst my favourite things that Natalie Joy and I do together. Low-stakes, cooperative, creative, hands-on, colourful, a tactical pleasure, and satisfying. There aren’t many things I feel justified in being excessive about, but I am entirely comfortable indulging in hoarder-like behaviour when it comes to Lego. Bury me in it and I’ll die happy, my death…

#mo365 Day 17: Calabogie

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I didn’t do quite as many runs as I thought I would. The time I spent with my students on the hill was great, but the time spent in the lodge later in the afternoon, talking to another teacher and a revolving door of students about any number of subjects. We had established with Calabogie earlier that day that we’d get all the students together to go tubing in the afternoon before leaving. The tubing hill was small and had a shallow slope and was kind of sticky, as it…

#mo365 Day 16: Pen.UP

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I was immensely skeptical of the social network Samsung created for Note users when I first heard about it. I had no plans to get into it, nary a thought that it might in fact be my very own digital smack. Pen.UP is GREAT. I love that my Note lets me be creative and artistic on the go. I love the tools it puts in my hands wherever I am. And apparently, there are piles of other people out there who feel the same. Pen.UP puts all those people in…

#mo365 Day 15: My Everyday

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I think about my mom a lot when I’m going to or from work. She worked really hard at jobs she generally liked to provide a really positive childhood for my sister and I. She’s still one of the hardest-working people I know, and it seems like she’s really starting to see the fruit borne of her constant hard work. Still, I can’t help remembering, whenever I think about my mom (which is frequently these days) that she always wanted two things, professionally speaking. She wanted to teach, and she…

#mo365 Day 14: Thanks Justin!

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I don’t always know what kind of teacher I am. Today was a day that told me. This term, I have the immense privilege of teaching with the love of my life once a day. It’s an incredible experience, and one that I’m constantly and immeasurably grateful for. I also get the benefit of being able to call in talented and successful people I know to enrich classes and bring the subject to life. This term, my students got to meet an old school friend of mine, the talented filmmaker…