Marc A. Cormier

• WHEREAS, Irish reunification would address the root causes of conflict in Ireland and establish the basis for a permanent peace settlement;
• AND WHEREAS, the Good Friday Agreement created a political framework in which Irish reunification can occur;
• AND WHEREAS the Good Friday Agreement has already facilitated the establishment of all-Ireland governing institutions;
• WE THE UNDERSIGNED pledge our support for the peaceful and democratic reunification of Ireland.

I encourage all those who believe in a United Ireland to sign this pledge. Please join the Facebook Group dedicated to this cause.

Ghost towns are aplenty across the United States, especially in the South West. Most are no more than a few outlines and at the intersection of two dirt roads, but all the same they are reminders that our cities and towns are also mortals. Once in a while, you stumble upon something different, a place so unique you return time and time again. Such is Hagan, New Mexico.

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By John Daly

I have often wondered why people when planting trees or shrubs rely for seedlings almost exclusively on the commercial nurseries when we have so many varieties of lovely wild trees in Cape Breton that can be had for only a little trouble of digging them up and transplanting. Then, too, they possess the advantage of being acclimated and will withstand the rigors of our winters much better than most imported trees and will bloom for generations, whereas many nursery shrubs and trees have a very ephemeral life, more especially if the plantation happens to be near the sea and is exposed to the cold, salty winds of the spring and fall.
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Politics on the dial. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart remains on the list of absolute favourites and obligatory watching along with Keith Olbermann’s Countdown. Both provide a daily and entertaining analysis of the day’s politics. When time allows, Chris Matthews and The Ed Show are two more MSNBC shows worth watching for the political junkie. No more Rachel Maddow however, for an air of insincerity seems to have wafted over the show; as a good friend often says, she’s not wysiwyg.

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My Twitchuck.com Report

YES we recommend that you follow miquelon. This user follows the Twitter guidelines, does not spam, and is in general an interesting individual

• Highlights for this user
• This is a very popular user.
• This user was created a while ago.
• This user has a balanced ratio of friends and followers
• This user posts a lot
• This is an active user
• This user has shown a lack of spam posts, terms, or links and will most likely will not post spam.
• This user typically has @replies in all of their posts, this may be spammer, but most likely the user communicates frequently with the Twitter community.

Recent events have thrust the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon into the limelight of Canadian and North American politics (Continental Shelf Issue). This was the perfect opportunity to build a fully functional English language site with news and information about France’s North American territory.

RadioBarachois.net acts as a central repository for all news about the islands. We also produce our own content. RadioBarachois.com, remains a  French language news site about Saint-Pierre and Miquelon with three main audiences: citizens of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (including expatriates), French citizens from Europe and Overseas territories, and Francophones from around the world.

By pure happenstance, as always on Reddit, I stumbled upon the iPhone SubReddit Logo Contest. I enjoy Reddit, I love  the iPhone, how could I resist not entering? After many tweaks, resizing and stronger features, my initial sketch ended up being the chosen logo. Reddit is all about sharing, collaborating, up votes and down votes, but fundamentally it’s about feedback. Thanks to thewaywardson, badjoke33 & bmeckel!

While the flagship activist site known as Miquelon.org keeps monitoring Franco-American relations this side of the Atlantic, I decided in mid-2007 to create a new project about the United-States of America for a French audience.

By reporting daily about issues and news affecting Americans, I believe a better understanding can be achieved between the two Republics. En Amérique’s readership has exploded in just under a year from just a few visitors to over 200 readers a day with some articles reaching close to 3000 readers.

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After fifteen years of Internet presence, I have finally opened my own blog. My first encounter with the net was a cryptic and intimidating unix prompt that would appear after a 2400 baud phone connection with a Toronto avant-guard provider Internex Online in late 1993. This was before the Web, when the only tools available were Usenet, Archie, Gopher, telnet, mail, joe, vi …

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