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Elliott Riley is standing onstage at a bar, guitar in hand, and he makes an offer to the people who came to see If they want, he’ll play music for them … or … he’ll tell them a story, and then get to the music. “Now, I’d vote for the story, because I know what the story is, and if I were you, I’d want to hear the story.”
The story he’ll tell the small crowd is about a childhood tragedy, an event that led him to a life of music and gave him the material to write the album Unsee the Seen. Because of that album, Elliott almost ‘made it’ long ago.
Now, years later, Elliott spends his life playing his music to small crowds and revisiting that childhood tragedy. He thinks it’s therapeutic, but others he meets aren’t sure that’s the case. They think it’s slowly killing him.
The story he’ll tell the small crowd is about a childhood tragedy, an event that led him to a life of music and gave him the material to write the album Unsee the Seen. Because of that album, Elliott almost ‘made it’ long ago.
Now, years later, Elliott spends his life playing his music to small crowds and revisiting that childhood tragedy. He thinks it’s therapeutic, but others he meets aren’t sure that’s the case. They think it’s slowly killing him.
211 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2024
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Rick Smith
57 books13 followersRick Smith is a prominent Canadian author and environmentalist and Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada (since 2003).
A biologist by training, Rick completed his doctoral research on an endangered subspecies of freshwater harbour seal in arctic Quebec with a nearby community of Cree hunters. From 1997 to 2002 Rick was Executive Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare's Canadian office and acting Director of the Fund's UK office for a year. While at the Fund, Rick created high-profile and successful public efforts to end Ontario's spring bear hunt, won a groundbreaking Supreme Court of Canada ruling striking down the patenting of higher life forms and spurred the adoption of Canada's first federal Species At Risk Act.
As Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada, Rick has established a reputation as one of the country's leading environmental campaigners with efforts such as the high-profile Toxic Nation campaign, which has tested prominent Canadians for measurable levels of pollutants in their blood. Other important new government policies that he has played a leading role in shaping include the Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt, the largest in the world; Ontario's new Endangered Species Act, widely viewed as the most progressive in North America; and Canada's recent decision to become the first jurisdiction in the world to ban the toxic chemical bisphenol A from children's products.
Rick lives in Toronto with his wife Jennifer Story and their two young sons.
A biologist by training, Rick completed his doctoral research on an endangered subspecies of freshwater harbour seal in arctic Quebec with a nearby community of Cree hunters. From 1997 to 2002 Rick was Executive Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare's Canadian office and acting Director of the Fund's UK office for a year. While at the Fund, Rick created high-profile and successful public efforts to end Ontario's spring bear hunt, won a groundbreaking Supreme Court of Canada ruling striking down the patenting of higher life forms and spurred the adoption of Canada's first federal Species At Risk Act.
As Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada, Rick has established a reputation as one of the country's leading environmental campaigners with efforts such as the high-profile Toxic Nation campaign, which has tested prominent Canadians for measurable levels of pollutants in their blood. Other important new government policies that he has played a leading role in shaping include the Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt, the largest in the world; Ontario's new Endangered Species Act, widely viewed as the most progressive in North America; and Canada's recent decision to become the first jurisdiction in the world to ban the toxic chemical bisphenol A from children's products.
Rick lives in Toronto with his wife Jennifer Story and their two young sons.
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