High Park-Swansea, Toronto
Joined January 2014
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A terrific offsite meeting for the Siemens Canada Legal and Compliance team in Toronto! We considered the topics of ESG, Distribution Networks, and the commercial and risk aspects of Digitalization. And we got to know each other in some great restaurants on Queen and Ossington …
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“And so Hedda in her own way,
showed us that she had a killer inside her.”
@rabrait (MFA ‘22) won the 2021 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition for his seven-poem suite "Ibsen in the Movies." @ExileSocial
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The Bennington Poets - This term’s poetry graduates from the Bennington College MFA program!
(I to r : Susan Dines, Richard Brait, Krysia Wazny McClain, Michael Martinec, Claressinka Anderson and Nico Amador).
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Just get yourself to morning - / that troll turned to stone by the sun's hard glow. /
Don't let the dreams that stalk you / in the night survive the dawning.
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MFA student @rabrait published his poem "The Night Troll at the Window" @dalhousiereview.
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Thanks to The Dalhousie Review for publishing my poem “The Night Troll at the Window” in the Autumn 2021 issue.
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Today, March 5, is the day Akhmatova died. If you didn't read her Requiem, please do. These days it is particularly meaningful. Meaningful, too, that she was born in Odessa, where explosions are heard this very moment.
“One fight, in one place…” We really are at a turning point for our world. Europe, the Free World, needs to be all in on this one.
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"It was a cheap fly -
synthetic pink and
a bright white wing..."
Richard A. Brait ( MFA student ) had two poems published in the Winter 2022 issue of @thenewquarterly: The African Queen and Black Paintings.
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A great mail day! The Winter 2022 issue of The New Quarterly arrived today - it features two of my Newfoundland Poems: The African Queen and Black Paintings.
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Today, 3 January is the birthdate of J. R. R. Tolkien, who was born in 1892.
Blackwell's was Tolkien's first publisher with 'Goblin Feet' accepted in the annual Oxford Poetry for the year 1915.
With the hindsight of age, it was not a favourite piece of his own work.
Thanks to Joan Harcourt, Literary Editor at The Queen’s Quarterly, for taking 20 pages of my poetry in one fell swoop!
“Newfoundland Legal Trilogy” will appear in the Summer 2022 issue, and the first 4 poems of my Margaret and Sam manuscript in Winter 2022. – at Toronto, Ontario
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"Demanding that health-care workers get a needle is not cruel and unusual punishment, it’s a health and safety requirement." writes @reggcohn in today's @TorontoStar. #COVID19Ontario
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"Honestly, in my 12 years as president, it was one of the easiest decisions."
@SenecaCollege president David Agnew on why his school became the first post-secondary institution in Canada to require vaccinations as a condition of coming on campus. #Opinion thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Picking up the mail - one of my favourite activities, especially today! Thanks to EVENT magazine for publishing Keating’s River and Peach Lake - two of my Newfoundland poems.
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Only fitting Tim seals it with a save. #GoHop
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Balliol's Broad Street facade, probably in the 1890s, from a collection of early lantern glass slides of Oxford, taken by the Scottish photographer George Washington Wilson.
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When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.
It's the same thing when you are stupid.
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Love yourself. But also analyze and be critical of how you think, act & behave. Self love without self awareness is useless. Be accountable.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Márquez was the godfather of magical realism. To celebrate his birthday, here's our essential guide on where to start with his work 👇
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