Like everyone I have an embarrassing and guilty pleasure. I’m not proud of it, but if there is an addiction I must live with, I guess I can resign myself to this: The Bachelor. I don’t watch a lot of television, but you can bet every Monday between 8 and...
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Category Archives: On and Off the Track
>Social Media: An Epidemic of Narcissism – Achtung!
> With the advent of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, youtube, Linkedin, and blogging, we have entered the dawn of a new era. Social media: providing outlets for self promotion, repeated 5 minutes of fame and pure self indulgence. As a social media junkie, I by no means count myself out of...
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>Getting Intimate…. With My (Research Data) Analysis
> Meet my Lover Every morning I roll out of bed and there he greets me at my kitchen table. He’s with me all morning long and sees me off to practice in the afternoon. While training I must confess that he has left my mind, and really the only...
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>Uninvited to Queen’s Park: Who IS Ontario’s Minister of Sport??? – ACHTUNG!
> On October 20, 2011 Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled his new cabinet and no Minister responsible for sport was named. The Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport has disappeared, vanished into thin air and has returned to a title of just Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. (I guess...
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>Reflecting on Climbing Mount Everest (well almost)… The CN Tower
> Yesterday a team of National Team Athletes, Olympians, ParticipACTION Sogo leaders and our great Minister of State (Sports), Bal Gosal and Minister Lizon (MP of Mississauga) braved the CN Tower’s 1,776 stairs for United Way! And everybody did a phenomenal job! As I entered the base of the tower, my mind was...
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