Today I launched my fundraising campaign for the Great Cycle Challenge Canada as I launched myself on a 166km jaunt south and east of the city through Chrysler and Berwick. I’m looking so cheery in the photo, aren’t I? You’d think I’d be thrilled with the speed I got, propelled
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cmkl.ca: To bell or not to bell
I was biking through the arboretum the other day on my way back from a jaunt through Gatineau Park, enjoying relatively warm weather and a leisurely pace as befits a multi-user pathway typically chock full of pedestrians, dog walkers and rollerbladers, when I overtook a cyclist on an empty stretch
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I was biking through the arboretum the other day on my way back from a jaunt through Gatineau Park, enjoying relatively warm weather and a leisurely pace as befits a multi-user pathway typically chock full of pedestrians, dog walkers and rollerbladers, when I overtook a cyclist on an empty stretch
Continue readingcmkl.ca: Garmin Vector 3 pedals: the company really stands by their products
Wherein Garmin replaces my four year old defective power pedals well out of warranty. For free.
Continue readingcmkl.ca: Garmin Vector 3 pedals: the company really stands by their products
Wherein Garmin replaces my four year old defective power pedals well out of warranty. For free.
Continue readingcmkl.ca: My personal blog renaissance
Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, I have decided (probably like a lot of other people) to reinvigorate my blog. It’s amazing to think that it’s been almost 20 years since I’ve been publishing my blog. Though of late (oh… say about ten years) it’s been much neglected. Internet communications
Continue readingcmkl.ca: My personal blog renaissance
Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, I have decided (probably like a lot of other people) to reinvigorate my blog. It’s amazing to think that it’s been almost 20 years since I’ve been publishing my blog. Though of late (oh… say about ten years) it’s been much neglected. Internet communications
Continue readingcmkl.ca: December 6th: it’s been two generations
I confess to being at loss for words this year as I commemorate the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique in Montréal. So much stuff — so many incidents of male violence against women — have been layered over it since then. And indeed two generations of children have been born
Continue readingcmkl.ca: December 6th: it’s been two generations
I confess to being at loss for words this year as I commemorate the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique in Montréal. So much stuff — so many incidents of male violence against women — have been layered over it since then. And indeed two generations of children have been born
Continue readingcmkl.ca: How to steal rides from winter part 1: hands
I like to keep riding outside as long as I can. Road salt, snow and ice-covered roads are hard limits for me. But temperature is a moveable one. It’s quite easy to keep your core warm. And whoever heard of cold thighs. So shorts under tights and enough base layers
Continue readingcmkl.ca: How to steal rides from winter part 1: hands
I like to keep riding as long as I can. Road salt, snow and ice-covered roads are hard limits for me. But temperature is a moveable one. It’s quite easy to keep your core warm. And whoever heard of cold thighs. So shorts under tights and enough base layers to
Continue readingcmkl.ca: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em
I don’t know how else to interpret today’s media event wherein UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias and OPSEU President Smokey Thomas appeared in Milton praising Doug Ford’s plan to increase the minimum wage. It seems like they’ve thrown in the towel. Compare and contrast their gosh golly “frustrating conversations” (Dias)
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I don’t know how else to interpret today’s media event wherein UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias and OPSEU President Smokey Thomas appeared in Milton praising Doug Ford’s plan to increase the minimum wage. It seems like they’ve thrown in the towel. Compare and contrast their gosh golly “frustrating conversations” (Dias)
Continue readingcmkl.ca: Algonquin: Cedar – Catfish – Hogan – Burntroot – Nipissing River
A four day canoe trip in the heart of Algonquin Park: Sept. 21 – 24, 2018.
Continue readingcmkl.ca: Ottawa’s municipal unions have blown a fuse on vaccine mandates
CBC is reporting that four of Ottawa’s unions — CUPE 503, CUPE 5550, ATU 279 and ATU 1760 — are grieving the city’s no jab, no job policy. And it is here that I part company with my siblings. These are (among others) bus drivers, child care workers, public health
Continue readingcmkl: Killarney Park: The Crack, Silver Peak and The Pig
Five days paddling and hiking in Killarney Park with the kid. Read more
Continue readingcmkl.ca: Killarney Park: The Crack, Silver Peak and The Pig
Five days paddling and hiking in Killarney Park with the kid.
Continue readingcmkl: Challenge completed
This morning while Mallory was at ski practice I rode the last kilometres of my Great Cycle Challenge. A comfortably paced Gatineau Park loop with a bonus tour out toward the Aylmer marina. I ended up grabbing a few extra and finishing with 2174km for the month. It’s more than
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This morning while Mallory was at ski practice I rode the last kilometres of my Great Cycle Challenge. A comfortably paced Gatineau Park loop with a bonus tour out toward the Aylmer marina. I ended up grabbing a few extra and finishing with 2174km for the month. It’s more than
Continue readingcmkl: Matching donations: all the dollars, twice the relevance
August is here and I’ve started pedalling toward my goal of 2150km to raise money for the Sick Kids Foundation as part of their Great Cycle Challenge to fight Kids’ Cancer. This is my fifth year riding the GCCC and I’ve been part of an effort to raise millions of
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