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Life off the Couch: November 2010
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Friday, November 26, 2010. Book Review: Player One. The novel was written as the 2010 submission for the prestigious Massey Lecture Series. In the past, such dignitaries as Martin Luther King Jr., Noam Chomsky, and Michael Ignatieff have been Massey Lecturers. Coupland presented Player One as five one-hour lectures on CBC Radio, earlier this November. The novel was also on the long list for the prestigious ScotiaBank Giller Prize. Coupland has been railing ...
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Life off the Couch: January 2011
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Friday, January 28, 2011. Manitoba parks still threatened by logging. This week marked the end of my IPP (Independent Professional Project) journey to visit all 77 of Manitoba's road-accessible provincial parks and to document it for the Winnipeg Free Press. A year later and logging continues to take place in Duck Mountain Provincial Park and logging trucks continue to rumble through the caribou migration path in Grass River Provincial Park. 8220;Duck Mount...
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Life off the Couch: April 2010
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Thursday, April 22, 2010. CreComm has finally come to an end. It's kind of a weird feeling. After months and months of pulling out may hair from stressing out, it kind of feels like CreComm went out with a little bit of a whimper. I kind of mentally checked out a little earlier than I probably should of. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Volcano isn't just hitting airlines in the pocket books. When I travel, I usually blow through money like it's going out of style&...
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Life off the Couch: February 2011
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Friday, February 18, 2011. This is from Michael Grange's blog for The Globe and Mail. He discusses the UFC taking advantage of good pr coming from a man who fended of an attack by a mass murderer. Which brings us to the dramatic events in a New York City subway station earlier this week, where a Maksim Gelman, 23, accused of killing four people in a weekend crime spree, allegedly attacked Joe Lozito with a butcher knife. When I first read the blog post, I t...
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Life off the Couch: The Moose Revisited
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Friday, April 22, 2011. The Manitoba Moose came back from the brink of elimination to down the Lake Erie Monsters in the first round of the American Hockey League playoffs. The 4-1 victory in game seven means they now have to face off against their division rivals, the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Moose took control early, pounding Monsters' goalie Jason Bacashihua with 17 shots in the first period. Their reward for this sustained pressure was a pair of quick...
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Life off the Couch: March 2011
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Friday, March 25, 2011. Negative PR and sports labour unrest.not limited to North America. It's interesting to note that unchecked greed is not something isolated to North American professional sports. While the National Football League (the billionaires) and the players (the millionaires) fight not just a labour, but a public relations battle (hears and minds), everything is not rosy in Spanish futbol. Sunday, March 20, 2011. Social Media Slam Dunk. Ah, it...
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Life off the Couch: Canada's Northern Problem
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Saturday, April 2, 2011. Over the past several years, there has been much discussion about Canada's North and protecting our sovereignty in the Arctic Archipelago. Much of this talk has focused on military and international diplomacy solutions. The Globe and Mail's Patrick White wrote an excellent, in-depth portrait of trials and tribulations of Canada's largely forgotten northern people. April 2, 2011 at 5:16 PM. I met someone from a northern Manitoban res...
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Life off the Couch: September 2010
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Editing is the life of a CreCommer. Coming into the second year of CreComm, I had no clue that editing would be the theme of my year. It definitely has so far. I've got courses in Editing Print and Online Media, Image Editing, and video editing. It's quickly become clear that the principles of editing the written word carry over to editing video. Is the focus placed on the right information to make it compelling? I'm slowly gett...
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Life off the Couch: February 2010
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Life off the Couch. Out and about in the world. Friday, February 26, 2010. The end of an era (a very short one). This blog has been quite a meandering piece of writing over the last six months. It started off being focused on Canadian sports and quickly lost its way. I lost my focus and my writing covered everything from sports, to travel, to history. It's time to lay Life on a Couch to rest today. Next week: new blog, new theme, new name. Friday, February 12, 2010. The Future of the Free Press. The curr...
