If It's Monday and I'm on Leave...

...I must be working on banners for local fandom ads. Whether my design work will be of any use is another matter.

Place du Portage: A Question from Urbsite

I'd like to know the answer to the closing question of this entry, too:

http://urbsite.blogspot.ca/2012/05/peering-up-to-portages-penthouse-perch.html

Anyone?

Live music on the casualty list

Details with a Newfoundland-specific focus here:

http://www.thetelegram.com/Arts---Life/Entertainment/2012-05-02/article-2968750/Live-music-broadcasts-fall-victim-to-federal-cuts/1

More on the Library and Archives Canada situation

Go read this:
http://thezeds.com/2012/05/06/budget-cuts-to-libraries-archives-and-information-centres-jeopardize-access-to-canadian-government-information/

rfmcdpei pointed this out to us all, and frankly he was right to do so.

To very loosely paraphrase Spider Robinson: never frighten even one librarian, much less an entire nation's worth of them. They control information in ways that governments should rarely if ever aspire to.