Recreating Eden: Mary Soderstrom's Blog
Blog URL http://marysoderstrom.blogspot.com
Located Montreal, Quebec Canada
Tags Gardening, Politics, City planning, Writing, Nature, Literature, Book Disucssions
An eclectic look at politics, nature, cities, gardening, writing and reading by Mary Soderstrom, a Montreal-based writer of fiction and non-fiction
Latest Blog Posts
- Carpe Diem and Rain Boots : Notes on the Mois des morts on Nov 20, 2009
"Henry Pharris, ring bearer, wore L.L. Bean rain boots with his navy blue blazer and khakis." The Daily Star, November 5, 2007This is a rainy day when we will attend the funeral of a good friend and neighbor Michel Freitag. November, they say here,...
- More Proof That PPPs Are Bad for Health--and Many Other Things on Nov 19, 2009 in books. Quebec Solidaire urban infrastructure PPPs
Public private partnerships (PPPs) to build mega hospitals were foisted on Quebec by politicians and bureaucrats who made biased calculations, the province's auditor general says.In his report, released yesterday, Renaud Lachance reports that planni...
- Tremblay Acts Like a Good Christian in Appointing Bégeron to Montreal's Exec Committee? on Nov 18, 2009 in humour government Montreal
A bit of drollery from Radio Can this morning:Apparently newly re-elected Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay’s spiritual advisors are very happy with his decision to include Richard Bérgeron, leader of one of two opposition parties, on the city’s e...
- Recycling Household Waste Is Going to Be Tough, and It's Not Clear Whether They've Got That Leaf Thing Right on Nov 17, 2009
The Quebec government says it wants to ban "green" and recyclable waste from landfills within a decade, starting with paper and cardboard with the aim of lowering average household waste from 810 to 700 kilograms per year. It announced Monday that i...
- The Power of Song II: Scenes from Portugal and Brazil on Nov 16, 2009 in music Portugal Brazil
More Portuguese music today: The first is "Fado Tropical," by Chico Buarque de Holanda. It's sung and played against the background of newsreels from the Portuguese Carnation Revolution in 1974 where that country peacefully overthrew a dictatorship...
- Saturday Photo: Fall in Kamloops, an Old Railroad Town That's Now a Regional Centre on Nov 14, 2009 in West railroad fall
Last weekend I was in Kamloops, British Columbia, a town on the confluence of two branches of the Thompson Rivers. Its history as a settlement goes back to fur trader days (although the First Nations were there long before then) and at the end of th...
- Véhicule Cleans Up--Or Vicki Marcok's Most Excellent Advice on Nov 13, 2009 in cleaning green living
Going to see your publisher can be most rewarding, sometimes in unexpected ways. Wednesday I dropped by the Véhicule Press offices with the proceeds from the books sold at the Fields of Walking last weekend in Kamloops. I filled in Simon Dardick,...
