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Tag Archives: russia
Loss, Part 2 of 3
2003: I find my mom’s favourite station on her car radio and hear a strange voice, almost a spoken-word voice, singing a poem in a minor key: “Suzanne takes you down to a place near the river, You can hear the … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, leonard cohen, loss, montreal, mortality, music, russia, winnipeg
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“Don’t kill your language!”
For my language geek friends…this TED talk, a Lebanese Arabic speaker railing against people who have an inferiority complex about their native languages, is worth listening to and reminded me of conversations I had had with Kirundi speakers, Haitian Kreyòl … Continue reading
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Tagged arabic, english, first nations, french, haiti, kirundi, language, languages, russia, shared content, suzanne talhouk, ted talks
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From the archives- Standing up for LGBT people in Russia
In honour of National Coming Out Day, after seeing this Pulitzer-grant-winning series on the impact of official homophobia on GLBT people in provincial Russian cities, I decided to repost this old story from 2012. It’s a continuation of this story, … Continue reading
A few simple rules
At the Baltimore Farmer’s Market today (yes, I’m in Baltimore visiting family, and I’ll try to work in a few interesting posts about the local flora and fauna) I ran into a woman a few years older than me who … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, africa, balkans, global south, haiti, india, language, languages, russia, travel, travel tips
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A few thoughts on the Winter Olympics
OK, I admit it, there is other work I could be doing, but I am watching the Winter Olympics. I daresay the same is true for much of Canada. Right now I’m flipping back and forth between a live webcast … Continue reading
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Tagged bujumbura, bujumbura floods, burundi, canada, Central African Republic, class, dufour-lapointe, figure skating, francine niyonsaba, global south, inequality, ireen wust, lgbt, lgbt rights, luge, philip boit, poverty, privilege, russia, skiing, sochi, speed skating, sport, syria, togo, tonga, usa, winter olympics, you can help
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Planète Télé – Émission 7
Nous n’étions pas ici. Mais regardez quand-même cette émission de Planète pour voir les derniers reformes democratisantes (?) en Chine, les préparations pour les Jeux olympiques de Sotchi, l’exposition fascinante d’art haïtien à Québec…et un voyage au coeur des camps … Continue reading
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Tagged art, china, congo, en francais, haiti, journalism, lgbt, obesity, planète télé, quebec, reportage, russia, science, videos
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Know Your Expats
I have had a few intriguing meetings with various expats in the past few weeks, which led me to write the following bit of tongue-in-cheek amateur anthropology. Is it apt? Absurd? Pretentious? Missing a few categories? Let me know! Add … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, exchange students, expatriates, expats, fish out of water, global south, radiostage, russia
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