If you've arrived here by clicking the link in Antonia Zerbisias' column in the Toronto Star, welcome. (And even if you arrived by some other route.) It's always nice to have new visitors. One thing Antonia neglected to mention in her piece is that we'll do almost anything for traffic.
If I'd known you were coming I'd have baked a cake tried to have a post ready for you filled with dazzling and incisive commentary on the state of the world today. Truth is, aside from Christmas shopping I've been having a lazy weekend. But if you scroll down a bit there's a picture of cute kittens. I hope that'll do for now.
When I checked the story at the Star a few minutes ago I noticed that the only working link provided seemed to be the one that brought you here. So here are the rest of the blogs mentioned in the article, ready for mousing:
Righties:
The Shotgun
The Meatriarchy
Daimnation!
Let It Bleed
Brock: On the Attack
Lefties:
My Blahg
Stageleft: Life on the Left Side
Just for Fun:
Better Living Centre
Torontoist
secret storm's secret site
If this is your first tour through the Canadian blogosphere I hope you enjoy it. And if you don't find what you're looking for, there's a lot more where these came from. If you look to your right and down a bit, you'll see a whole list of blogs you can visit (though not all of those are Canadian). Most of us have blogrolls like that so click away on anything that looks interesting. You won't break anything. You might eat up a lot of time, though. This blogging stuff is addictive.
And thanks, Antonia.
Nice to see an article in the mainstream media that doesn't try to undermine blogs while talking about them. Too often the author tries to downplay blogs, and goes to great lengths to say how MSM is superior in every way.
Yes, Andrew -- Zerbisias is sharp, isn't she. Maybe that column will spur others to catch up.
And congratulations, pogge. Well deserved.
Yeah, it was a good article, but an odd choice of blogs she mentioned - your site is definitely the class of what was listed (in my opinion). Not saying the others aren't good sites, mind you, just not the best of what's out there - but I guess to each his/her own.
Speaking of class, it was a nice touch to provide links to the rest of them.
I concur w Declan's comments: thanks for posting the links.
Very classy on your part.
Thanks. It seemed like the obvious thing to do. I figured since the only working link provided was to my blog, that might be the first one readers chose to look at. That's what I would do, being the lazy so-and-so that I am.
This is off topic but its very important, please read. Thanks so much
Kleenex is made out of ancient forests!
Can you believe it? Kimberly-Clark, the manufacturer of Kleenex brand tissue products, is destroying forests in Canada that have been around since the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, to make something that is used once and then flushed down the toilet or thrown away. It's insane.
Greenpeace has just launched a new campaign to pressure Kimberly-Clark to stop wiping away ancient forests. The website, which is full of info, is at www.kleercut.net
At this site there's also a pretty good action center where you can send a free fax to Kimberly-Clark telling them that they should stop destroying ancient forests to create toilet paper and facial tissue. The action center is at www.kleercut.net/en/takeaction
That's the last time I blow my nose with Kleenex.