My day job is at Cole Road Co-operative Community, an 82-townhouse development. New members are referred through the central waiting list of Wellington County Housing Services. Our co-op is a member of the Central Ontario Co-operative Housing Federation (COCHF) and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada (CHFC).
I believe in them. They remain the best way for working people to secure fair wages and decent working conditions. For most of my working life I was active with the Canadian Auto Workers. For about 10 years I was out on a leave of absence working for the Workers Health & Safety Centre.
I am a member of the New Democratic Party of Canada. And Ontario. And Guelph. Political parties don't get actively involved in municipal politics around here, but I do. When election day rolls around in October 2010 I'll be supporting Karen Farbridge for another term as our mayor.
For more than 20 years I have spent winter Monday evenings playing in the Guelph Pub Dart League. For the past few years we have been sponsored by Real Deal, a bar near the corner of York and Victoria. Our team's statistics are on view here.
I enjoy cooking good meals and baking healthy bread. I don't think it's cheating to use a bread machine. I get a lot of my recipes from Epicurious, the Food Network and these great bread machine ones.
This web site mostly contains columns written for the Guelph Tribune. When they began in 1995, they were published every two weeks. There was a bit of a break from the summer of 2003 when I made an unsuccessful attempt to get elected to Guelph city council. They got going again in 2007. In June 2008 they became a weekly feature. In January 2010 the columns moved from the Tuesday edition to Thursdays.
The most recent column, along with the full archive, is found here.
Columns from 1995 to 2003 are here.
In the time I wasn't sounding off in the Tribune, I had some Community Editorial Board pieces in the Guelph Mercury. Read them here. A couple of other op-ed pieces are here.
Some of the things that interest me are found here.