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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written any weekend reports lately. That&#8217;s okay. But this last one, even though it&#8217;s already Wednesday, was a blur and a crazy consequential shift. Friday evening I trekked out to the expo centre to see the Forever Canadian rally. Seventy five hundred of us crammed into the venue to hear the Prime Minister [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Describe your 2025 in politics, culture, and the universe? No. Ugh. Ok.&#160; I’ll bite &#8230;a little bit, for the blog. I was doing a little experiment the other week. I had a perfectly good reason to post a pointless video clip on social media the other day, but I didn’t want to use my main [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>on online</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is your perspective on the culture of 2025? Can I write what I really want to write here without getting put on a list somewhere that prevents me from crossing borders? Hmm… I mean, you’re online. You’re almost certainly reading this on a screen, in a web browser, through a magic wire that connects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>book reviews: on down the river</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[September may be the end of summer reads, but no doubt that I am still trudging through a reading list longer than I care to admit. My lack of completed tomes this last few weeks has less to do with the quantity of reading I am going and more to do with my ability to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all start to sound a bit like junkies when we ponder aloud the idea of fleeing the social platforms once and for good, weaning ourselves off our feeds, setting limits and goals and self moderation parameters, or screaming digital curses to the gods of going cold turkey. It has been a week. A fucking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 14:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I jumped on the bandwagon and last night I watched a flick I haven’t seen in almost twenty years: Idocracy. And, boy, does that hit differently these days. You’ve seen the meme shitposting, no doubt. “Idocracy wasn’t an instruction manual, guys!” At least people are screaming it into the void on my social feeds as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To be fair, I didn&#8217;t actually read the article. In these days of click-bait headlines it is equally likely that any given bit of tripe posted in traditional media is some too-clever journalist writing a bit of sarcastic parody humor prefixed by an all-too-clever title to draw in the crowds who are almost certainly looking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[This coming Sunday, April 20th 2025, marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of my first blog post. You can&#8217;t even read it. I can. I mean, I have an archive of it somewhere in a document, stored away safely on multiple hard drives and backed up to the cloud and generally tucked away for some future time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Call it civic pride or call it mathematical curiosity, either way the latest census data for Canada was released this week and my city officially recorded one million residents for the first time in history. One million. That&#8217;s a lot of neighbours, most of whom I&#8217;ll probably never ever meet. A great big crowd, busy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Take Participation for Granted</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can read these words. You have access to knowledge unknown and unfathomable to any generation before you. You are online, connected, exploring big ideas and complex thoughts. Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021. I restarted blogging at the beginning of 2021 after a fairly long absence from the sport. I put [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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