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A Canadian comedian – now there’s an oxymoron. But Shaun Majumder star of This Hour Has 22 Minutes is from Burlington,Newfoundland and, although his stomping grounds are stunning, there isn’t anywhere to stay, or eat – which is exactly what he’s hoping to change with Majumder Manor.
What began years ago as a quest to build a Burlington abode for when Majumder wanted to escape his chaotic life in Los Angeles, soon turned into an off-the-grid green project involving David Suzuki, and then a quaint bed and breakfast, before he finally decided to create a $2.6-million five-room boutique “eco-lux” inn with guest cabins, which will generate revenue for the community.
Cue W Network’s new 12-part documentary Majumder Manor, debuts tonight.…

Bear, 37, is an example of someone who rarely lives the life he makes films about.

While many TV series are about people going off the grid “for a year,” Bear lives that way only a few weeks of the year.

Bear lives with his wife Shara and three sons, Jesse, eight, Marmaduke, five, and Huckleberry, three. According to press reports they split their time between Los Angeles, a houseboat on the Thames in London, and their summer home on a private Welsh island.

While there, Bear’s most valued asset is not his trusted hunting knife, or some other memento from the wild, but his membership of the Abersoch Yacht Club, located on a beach in north Wales. Without it he would be unable to get in and out of his island retreat.

As pale-skinned holiday-makers paddle in the shallows, an enormous roaring sound fills the bay, and a huge, black, rigid inflatable boat – the kind of boat which the A-Team might own, bursts into view, sweeping up a huge bow wave as it turns towards the jetty.…

While the budget negotiations between the President and the GOP get tenser, one woman is emerging as a touchstone of the new Republican Party – Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, a freshman in her second year and ranked 99th in seniority, is possibly the most formidable opponent the environmental lobby will ever have to face.

Heels On, Gloves Off

In 2003 Ms Ayotte was a member of the Homeland Security Taskforce, while chief of the homicide division in the New Hampshire attorney general’s office. Twenty years before that she was studying at Villanova University School of Law. While there, she held a position as editor of the school’s Environmental Law Journal, a connection she constantly plays on in her speeches around the country.

Oddly there is no information, no apparent record (other than the fact that she did go to Villanova), of her time as Editor of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal. Nobody has testified that she really was the Journal editor and there is no record of other achievements there. Please contact nick@off-grid.net if you have any information.…