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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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Category Archives: Projects
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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The future I’m building
I’ve been trying to write for days but I’m all over the place in content and tone. What I keep coming back to is what I believe: that kindness and community are the only way through this mess. It’s hard … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Community, Projects
Tagged future, intentional community, practice
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A successful minor campaign?
In 2009, according to transaction records, I became interested in an organization called Kiva, which “uses crowdfunded microloans as a force for good, creating a space where people can have one-to-one impact, and together, expand financial access for all.” The … Continue reading
Minor campaigns
Sometimes I do minor freelance proofreading / shit-disturbing. Some recent examples: 1. Équiterre Équiterre posted a job listing recently that failed to disclose up front (1) salary range and (2) remote / in-office expectations. I told them this is a … Continue reading
Role models
My reading continues, of heavy psychology books moreso than current events. The few news bits I’ve gleaned include that people have repeatedly shot at one of Kamala Harris’s campaign offices, it’s increasingly likely that Russia will use nuclear weapons, climate … Continue reading
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 →