These last two weeks in Montreal have been awesome as there's been a climate change conference going on in town and I've been helping out with climate activists who have helped put pressure on the UN delegates to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2012 with reducing greenhouse gases. I got to go to a couple delegation meetings, in which we heard from the ( Read more... )

Wow, what an action packed day! BND at Concordia was a blast, Timebomb organized an awesome set of workshops and activities on the Concordia mezzanine. Then later on, a bunch of us participated in the Buddah Walk, where about 20 of us marched zombie-like all dressed in black through one of the downtown malls with bags that spelled out Buy Nothing ( Read more... )

"The Porcupine Caribou herd won a reprieve Wednesday in the U.S. Congress after politicians decided not to pursue a budget provision that would allow drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge ( Read more... )

This sucks.

The "Smirking Chimp" Administration has made me pissed about things before, but this takes the freaking cake. This is absolutely devastating. One of our last untouched wildernesses is about to be trashed by ExxonMobil, as we all play on our X-Boxes. How insensitively brash can the Republicans be towards our environment?

Bush actually ( Read more... )

Snow overnight. Windy. Low 32F. Winds NNE at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of precip 90%. Snow accumulating 2 to 4 inches...

Whaaaat??? I need a hat!

Update: No snow on the ground, just sogginess. False alarm.

It's been about a week since I was complaining about the sheer size of ( Read more... )

If I had to describe Concordia with one word, it would have to be bustlingThe Hall Building downtown was so cluttered with people Tuesday that ( Read more... )

I'll be soon arriving in beautiful Montréal on August 27th. I'm going to be renting from two really cool 20-something French-Canadians, in a beautiful location across from a public garden. I will be living less than a block from the Lionel-Groulx metro stopwhich is a huge terminal connecting the Green and Orange lines, giving ( Read more... )

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A-CHEW! I was so snuffy today. Well, I'm closer to getting into Concordia...now I'm just waiting to hear back from their Communications Department to see if the 2 classes I signed up for are copacetic (Communications classes are "Extremely Restricted" for Study Abroad students @ Concordia.)