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A Funny Thing Happens When I Compliment HSR Operators to the Manager of Operations

About once every six weeks, I witness a HSR driver who exceeds my very high expectations of a civil servant. See, I don’t just expect good service, I expect great professional service. A funny thing sometimes happens – beyond me being impressed – I write an email to…
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We Need to Commemorate the Centenary of Vimy Ridge at 5:30am on April 9, 2017

Tonight, TVO’s The Agenda aired a discussion with photographer Racheal McCaig who is creating the photo exhibit “Je Me Souviens: Vimy 100” to mark the centenary of the famous Battle of Vimy Ridge. [![ Canadian machine gunners dig themselves in, in shell holes on Vimy Ridge. This shows…
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Deleted a Post

I’ve deleted a post from my personal website, the first time I’ve done this – and this blog started in 2004. I wrote a piece, about a friend who died, last week which I’m not happy with. I will memorialize her better in a new post. I’ve maintained…
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I Have to Make My Personal Blog Feel Personal Again

I have to stop over analyzing my writing on my personal blog, I have to just write. I have to learn to not be too concerned with how the context of my words may be mistaken. I need to not let perfection stand in the way of completion.…
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The End of Summer and Beginning of Fall 2016

September 21 is a date in the calendar, and while it says “Beginning of Autumn” on paper, I mark the start of fall when the weather feels a chilly cool at night and leafs start covering the ground. Most years, these events progress over the course of a…
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Finding Peace With Others

Listening to music this morning at my desk, and a song which I associate with another person streams as part of the playlist. I pause, I immediately think of a person whom introduced me to the song and whose story the song sings to. This person and I…
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Spiking A Column After Wasting Too Much Time on It

Being an independent journalist is a double-edged sword when it comes to being my own editor. There is the freedom to write stories without an editor assigning me to clickbait, but there the lack of guidance that an editor can provide when my desire to cover an issue…
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No Smog Shield, So How Will We "Explain" The Weather

Hamilton’s “smog shield” doesn’t exist anymore. That that it existed in the first place, but it was the saying I and many others would use to explain when weather systems impacted north, west, and south of Hamilton but somehow we’d get no rain. Overnight, there was (slight) rain…
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Pokemon in Gore Park, Saturday Night, 11pm

Downtown was alive with young people when I walked in Gore Park around 11 p.m. Saturday night. It wasn’t a concert or some official special event, a group of young people had gathered to play Pokemon. [![Gore Park, Saturday July 16, 11pm](http://joeycoleman.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WP_20160716_001-771×433.jpg)](http://joeycoleman.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WP_20160716_001.jpg)Gore Park, Saturday July 16, 11pm I…
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Congrats to Dr. Disc on 25 years, Mark, You're An Inspiration

Hamilton’s great independent music/record store Dr. Disc is celebrating 25 years of operation. Think about that for a second, they opened in 1991 only two years before home dial-up Internet was available in Hamilton, in a decade which saw the introduction of peer-to-peer file sharing popularized with Napster, and…
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