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home depot - snow day

March 13th, 2008 No Comments

Made my daily trek to the local HD yesterday and looky looky. Quebec’s home renovation warehouse was shut down due to snow loading on the roof. Ha. I was surprised that Réno’s marketing crew weren’t in the lot shooting snaps and sending the dozens of customers down the road for their supply […]

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pile it high

March 7th, 2008 1 Comment

So if I left this guy tethered here till spring he’d be flapping in the wind come May.  I would estimate the top of this ’scoop-da-poop’ sign to be about 10′.

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one more list before bed

February 26th, 2008 No Comments

From Autopia:
First, the 12 greenest cars:
1. Honda Civic GX (they’ve sold about 1000, mostly fleet and gov, woopdeedo)
2. Toyota Prius
3. Honda Civic Hybrid
4. Smart ForTwo
5. Toyota Yaris
6. Nissan Altima Hybrid
7. Toyota Corolla
8. Mini Cooper / Clubman
9. Ford Focus
10. Toyota Camry Hybrid
11. Honda Civic
12. Honda Fit
The dirty dozen are:
1. VW […]

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earth hour montreal update #912

February 22nd, 2008 1 Comment

I had a chance to speak with Montreal City councilor Alan DeSousa last night during the first major public hearing on project Griffintown. I wanted to get more specifics on Montreal’s participation in Earth Hour 2008.
Apparently the resolution will be tabled and voted on during the next council session and a press release will follow.

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