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About Gabriel

I’ve lived in more than fifty places. I've been paid to pick stones out of fields, take backstage photos of Britney Spears, and report on Internet privacy issues. My photos have been published in several newspapers, and a couple of magazines.

Purple Veins

. I never really took a lot of nature shots when I was shooting with my real cameras. Any nature shot I did take always seemed forced, just another shot of a field or some mountains sixty miles away. Plus, … Continue reading

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Bee Wrapped In Pink

. Honey bees are responsible for roughly 80% of the food we eat and yet no one knows why they’re dying off in such huge numbers… before we brought the European honey bee over here it was the mosquito which … Continue reading

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You Can’t Handle The Tooth

. No wonder I wasn’t gaining any weight, all the food I was jamming into my mouth was falling straight into that hole. That crown was seven years old and still going strong when the tooth was finally pulled from … Continue reading

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There Is A Connection Between 59 Percent Voter Turnout And Four 36 Day Elections In A Row

Voter turnout has been taking a nosedive over the past fifteen years because 1. the Canada Elections Act put a 36-day minimum on campaigning, and 2. the federal parties figured out that if you have $50 million dollars to spend … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving An Election And Health Care

It’s Thanksgiving in Canada today, and tomorrow we vote for a new federal government. Election dates in Canada are selected by our Prime Minister whenever he’s ready to give’r so the timing is a coincidence, but taking a day off … Continue reading

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Scrum Time On The Hill

. That’s former Fisheries Minister and Liberal MP David Anderson being called out by a reporter during a post-Question Period scrum. There are two types of reporter on Parliament, the yellows and the blues. I was a blue. The yellows … Continue reading

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