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Happy Anniversary, Clobin
Where many friends engage in public conversations with one another over Facebook and Twitter to make sure everyone knows who they are talking to and about what, my BFF Chloë and I are way too mature for all that. We tend to communicate through our blogs with elaborate posts featuring comics, videos, rules for other…
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Three beautiful songs from the Hidden Words
The Hidden Words is a new Montreal Baha’i indie supergroup fronted by Alden Penner (of the Unicorns and the Clues) with Jamie Thompson (of the Unicorns and Islands), Eric and James Farr (brothers of Honeyman and the Brothers Farr), Marie-Claire Saindon and Neah Bahji Kelly. Their name is from the unique spiritual text revealed by Baha’u’llah…
Alden, Alden Penner, Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah, Bahai, Eric Farr, Hidden Words, Honeyman and the Brothers Farr, Iqan, James Farr, Jamie Thompson, Kitáb-i-Íqán, Last shelter, Montreal, music, Neah Bahji Kelly, Odes to the House, Ottawa, Penner, Raw Sugar Cafe, Shoghi Effendi, the Bab, the Clues, The Hidden Words, the Islands, the Unicorns, Video -
A short film about sports
If I don’t understand football, curling, or even marathon running – there is no way I am going to understand the sport that the majority of the planet has long written off as too perplexing to even try. As little as I understand about cricket, I did have the feeling that if India was going to…
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This year’s World Religion Day celebration in Ottawa is going to dig deeper
Over the past few weeks I have been working with a committee of the Baha’i Community of Ottawa to organize Ottawa’s World Religion Day celebration. World Religion Day is in Ottawa is normally themed around one of today’s major global challenges such as peace, the rights of the child and education. In the past the event…
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Environment geeks unite!
I have just returned to Ottawa from Madison, Wisconsin by way of Toronto, Buffalo , Chicago and Milwaukee to present another version of my research on hope and faith in environmentalism at the first meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) as well as to a group of keeners at the Madison…
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Baha’i Geeks and Environmentalists Unite!
In the past 48 hours, I have traveled by bike, hybrid car, regular car, greyhound, subway, train, taxi and foot to get from Tatamagouche, through Amherst, Sackville, Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Montreal (again) and New York City to arrive in Washington, D.C. and attend, speak, blog and mingle at the joint 33rd Annual Association for Baha’i…
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The Life and Works of Honeyman and the Brothers Farr
Last year in a presentation about the critical academic approach of political ecology, a classmate observed that its main advocates do not do enough to forward their approach – which is criminal for the contribution it might make. He made a good point, and I have begun to feel that way about many other things…
Samuel Benoit 