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About the author
CKirkby
- earned degrees in language / literature and law (but is not currently a lawyer or a journalist);
- worked for over a decade on Parliament Hill;
- misses writing; and
- appreciates thoughtful comments, en anglais ou en français. (Email addresses are not published.)
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Author Archives: CKirkby
Test of the new notification system
Apologies to anyone who got strange-looking emails from my website recently. There’s been a lot of behind-the-scenes work going on, including the setting-up of a less frustrating way to send notifications, and it may have been confusing to anyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Climate
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Contrasting choices
Update to Too many grocery bags (again): The problem grows (10 July 2026). I wonder how silly my photographs will get before corporate responds. A project I’m mulling over has to do with asking people about democratic values. I’m not … Continue reading
Project updates
I’ve added a new project (Too many grocery bags (again)) (argh) and updates on two others (my latest idea re: pedestrian safety and some automatically generated emails from the oversight body re: Bell bullshit). Hopefully the table of contents makes … Continue reading
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Doing Good, Giving Heck
Just a quick update to advise I’ve been working on the Do Good, Give Heck website, mainly behind the scenes stuff and the Projects tab, which now includes inter alia Letters to Parliamentarians, where I try to convince legislators to … Continue reading
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Working on it
So, about that silence. It’s been a rough time on the truth and love front. I plan to write more once I get my practice caught up to my theory; in the interim, I refer interested readers to my sources … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Community, Health, Psychology
Tagged being human, rhetoric v. action, solidarity
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Food
This one touches on areas of trauma, so I’m not sending it to subscribers as a “newsletter.” If you want to opt-in to this post (which is also about community (and dystopia)), click through to the website. Maybe leave a comment. Check out a poem, even. Continue reading
Posted in Health, Community, Psychology
Tagged disordered eating, judgment, labour, solidarity
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Pieces I did not produce
I spent a lot of time writing this past week. Hours on Saturday and Sunday and Tuesday and nothing “produced.” First I once again felt too resigned to publish a piece about politics. I couldn’t even get people who espoused … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Health, Projects, Psychology
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Pith and substance
I continue to think about the proposed Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap Regulations, as Alberta plans an objection under its Sovereignty Act. Specifically I wonder how the federal government intends to justify an “environmental” law in court … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Commentary, Law, Politics
Tagged Greenhouse gas emissions, regulations, rhetoric v. action
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Tiny travelogue
The world has changed a lot since the last time I published a travelogue. The previous trip I wrote far too many words about was 10+ days long and involved airplanes and foreign languages. In comparison, this was just a … Continue reading
An advisor resigns
Exciting federal political news today: it looks like Justin Trudeau tried to demote Chrystia Freeland in favour of another rich white dude and she, after years as his closest political advisor and heir apparent to the Liberal throne, said “no, … Continue reading →