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Last summer I repotted my plants with new soil I bought from a garden store which will remain nameless, and the soil brought in indoor fungus gnats (nasty gnats!). How do I know it was the soil? Only 2 out of my 5 plants got infected, and they were the ones… Continue

I have to start this post by saying that the best thing about leaving the mundanejobverse to go back to school and get my master's is not the learning experience but actually the awesome people I've been meeting. And out of these awesome people, it's the girls I'm happiest to meet.… Continue

Conservative spokesman Kory Teneycke should look up the word democracy in the Dictionary.

After an exciting new agreement between the Liberals and NDP to try and bring down this joke of a minority government, Teneycke claimed they are "doing this in the most undemocratic fashion."

Excuse me, Mr. Teneycke? Let me give you a definition of democracy from Merriam Webster:

1 a: government by the people ; especially : rule of… Continue

I recently wrote a big sustainable tourism project, which has absolutely nothing to do with my thesis but for a stupid environmental management course I'm taking. I took this on partly because I was in Madagascar recently and this is what I saw:

I was expecting at least to be around a bunch of nature tourists, you know, like those safari aficionados with SLR lenses as big as their 4WDs. What I saw was actually a bunch of obnoxious French tourists, 70% of whom seemed to be rich baby boome… Continue