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Truth, and winning at all costs.
Within the span of a week, Olympic speed skater Simon Cho has admitted to tampering with an opponent’s equipment, and cyclist Lance Armstrong’s history of denying use of performance-enhancing drugs has been undeniably laid to waste by the U.S. Anti-Doping … Continue reading
What goes around comes around: Vancouver relives its cycling history
The recent Velo-city Global conference is an event I have been working with for the last eight months, and is a new undertaking for the City of Vancouver. In so far as this gathering of cycling infrastructure expertise, and the … Continue reading
A First Nation’s call for help
On Thursday, February 23, 2012, the last of 22 new modular homes arrived in the Attawapiskat First Nation of northern Ontario. To the Canadian federal government, it signaled the trumpeted end of a crisis that began almost a full four … Continue reading
On being Freshly Pressed…
A wonderful thing happened to me one year ago. Barely six months after the launch of Cyclelogical, my on-line repository for thoughts on a variety of topics, I published a post entitled The Human Spirit. A short time later, I … Continue reading
Happy belated birthday baby!
According to United Nations predictions, mother earth welcomed her seven-billionth child on October 31, 2011. If we play the odds, it was probably a boy, and probably born in either China, or India. Regardless of gender, or home nation, happy … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 billion, a birthday wish, a sense of wonder, earth's population, happy birthday, wonder
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Corporate greed: the plight of Indian Alphonso mangoes and the message of the Occupy movement.
What do the spate of Occupy movements around the world have to do with a group of protesting Indian fruit growers back in the mid 1990’s? Well, at first glance, perhaps nothing. But for me, it is probably closer to … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate greed, Dabhol Maharashtra, Dabhol power plant, economic inequality, Enron, equality, Occupy movement, Occupy Vancouver
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Soul sport: much more than the Tour de France.
Bastille Day has come and gone. It’s mid July and cycling aficionados the world over are having to adjust their much-varied, geographical time clocks. For people who follow this sort of thing, it is the height of the professional season, and … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycling, cycling, lifestyle, soul sport, spirituality of sport, sport of the soul, Tour de France, travel
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Chiang Mai’s custodians of tradition.
Ten years ago, I was in northern Thailand bicycling, taking in the vibe, and hanging out with a group of young artists as I escaped a portion of a Vancouver winter. My thoughts returned to that time recently, as my … Continue reading
Reading the leaves after Three Cups of Tea.
It is a sad day indeed when our heroes fall from grace. The publishing of Greg Mortenson’s novel Three Cups of Tea provided readers with inspiration, hope and a desire for positive change; a counterweight to Bush-era foreign policy in … Continue reading
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Tagged education in northern Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Greg Mortenson, Greg Mortenson controversy, long term effects of Three Cups of Tea, northern Pakistan, Pakistan's Northern Areas, Passu Pakistan, rual children in northern Pakistan, schools in northern Pakistan, Three Cups of Tea, three cups of tea controversy, villages along the KKH
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