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The Ten Merits of Writing Dharma

June 12, 2011

Storytelling is both a gift, and a very old custom. Stories teach, entertain, and transform. They’re an act of creation, a way of connecting to a source -  a conduit for energy in the form of words, spoken, sung, and now, more often, written and read. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept [...]

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Emerging into the E-Novel Market

April 28, 2011

This month I’ve emerged into the growing e-novel market. It was a pretty easy decision to go with an e-publisher, both from the perspective of sustainable practice and business marketing. Recent reports indicate that e-novels are gaining popularity around the world, and more traditional print-media.  In China, for example, there are over 70 million readers [...]

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Call to Canadian Aboriginal Youth Writers and Artists: Are you up for the Challenge?

January 17, 2011

This year the Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge celebrates seven years of supporting new and emerging young Indigenous talent across the country. The Challenge was established in 2005 to highlight the successful publication of Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past, collection of short fictional stories about  defining moments in Aboriginal history from nine [...]

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Business as usual? 2010 North American Foreign Ministers Conference leaves an impression of the sleepy town of Wakefield Quebec

December 17, 2010

The sleepy village of Wakefield Quebec got a boost of attention on Monday December 13, 2010, when hundreds of media, police and subsequent government entourage attended the North American Foreign Ministers Meeting at the “cozy” historic Wakefield Mill Inn and Spa. While the planning for the visit of Canadian Foreign Minister Laurence Canon, American Secretary [...]

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Governments still refuse to implement landmark Algonquin of Barriere Lake Trilaterial Agreement

December 17, 2010

On Monday December 13, 2010, New Democrat Charlie Angus (Timmins – James Bay) joined representatives from the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake to call  on Stephen Harper’s federal government to respect signed commitments to help rebuild the marginalised Indigenous community and restore its traditional democratic process for selecting leadership. The federal government’s recent decision to [...]

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