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CFL Beat: Week 15

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September may honestly be the perfect month. With the back-to-school routine now established and with football Sundays in session, I can also now fill out my Fridays and Saturdays perfectly. Some people tell me the weekend weather is beautiful, but as all good football fans know, I have no idea

CFL Beat: Week 14

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The NFL is back tonight! Yahoo! Very exciting! I'll be watching all of it, as we all love to do here. I'm just glad the the CFL has mostly come to their senses about game scheduling during the fall season when the big league is back in session; they're finally

CFL Beat: Week 13

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We've made it to Labour Day! It's officially make-it-or-break-it time in the CFL season, and the annual tradition of fierce divisional rivalry games comes alive once more. With school on the horizon, I will be spending my final weekend of summer vacation at the cabin, drinking for three (me, my

CFL Beat: Week 12

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I'm not ready yet to go back to school. I need to hang onto this summer just a little tiny bit longer. With an exceptionally noisy music teaching job to return to shortly, not to mention the sounds of an infant arriving in just a few short months' time, the

CFL Beat: Week 11

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Where in the world is Maestro this week? Vancouver, as it turns out. Unfortunately we're flying home the night before the Lions host the Alouettes, but I remain confident that I will get to enjoy a CFL game at BC Place at some point in the future. I've visited the

CFL Beat: Week 10

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As life on the East Coast moves slowly while on vacation once more, football continues to march forward unabated. We have been working through a very long to-do list of all the usual haunts to hit every time we come home to visit; my personal donair guy Wally, at Pronto's

CFL Beat: Week 9

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Tomorrow is already August. As a teacher, that's the most horrifying thought I've had in months. While summer camp winds down forever for me, I do, fortunately still have another month of vacation remaining. It's time to make the most of it while I can. I'll be leaving tomorrow for

CFL Beat: Week 8

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Thursdays are thunderstorm days in my neck of the woods. I have absolutely no idea why that is, but it seems to be settling into a regular routine over the last few summers. Perhaps maybe those #geoengineering conspiracy freaks have inadvertently stumbled onto something... At any rate it appears, fortunately,

CFL Beat: Week 7

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I can't do heat. Never have been able to handle it. There's a good reason why NFL football only begins in September; climate change is making some of these early season games just absolutely unbearable from an in-person perspective. When thinking about the old nugget of conventional CFL wisdom in

CFL Beat: Week 6

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Summer camp is underway. It's my eighteenth (and final) year of being involved with teaching summer music. I'm four days in and I'm more tired now than I have ever been at any point in the regular school year. Teaching nine-year-olds is a whole different ballgame compared to teaching high