Monthly Archives: July 2023
Friday’s Theme Is…
I was looking for something on the lighter side today and every cartoon I looked at was cat-themed. I’ll take that as an invitation to share and maybe get serious tomorrow. I hope at least one of these made you chuckle!
If A Tree Falls…
Canada’s federal public servants were shifted to a new extended health plan on July first. You probably don’t care, but bear with me on this one. The transition has not been smooth. These may be expected hiccups of moving hundreds of thousands of people to a new plan, or it may be a disaster in […]
It’s Back…!
.. or is it? Yesterday I mentioned that I had wanted to link to the online clock that showed how long Ottawa’s LRT had been out of operation, but I couldn’t find it. Today someone put it up. The clock I remember was cumulative, showing how long the light rail service had been out of […]
Broken Again
Almost four years after its launch, Ottawa residents have become used to the unreliability of the city’s light rapid transit system, the LRT. As I write this, there is no timeline for the train to return to service. Proponents of the train may feel I am overly harsh with my criticism. When the system works, […]
Nelson’s Column
Standing on guard in London’s Trafalgar Square.
In The Family
My father-in-law was a storyteller. He’d lived in India, the Middle East and Europe. He could tell tales of politicians and royalty from the early twentieth century whose paths he had crossed in various circumstances. He also mentioned occasionally that he had been a choirboy at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London when I was young. […]
The Messages
I have never bought a t-shirt, or anything else for that matter, from Lilicloth. But I am tempted almost daily. Their clothing frequently gives expression to my thoughts. The ones I am too disciplined to say out loud because they aren’t polite. Also, I probably have enough t-shirts to last me the rest of my […]
Does The Face Matter?
The Bank of Canada has announced that the portrait of Sir Wilfred Laurier will remain on the Canadian five dollar bill. You probably didn’t realize he was on it. The decision comes as a surprise in a way. The government had announced their intention to remove Sir Wilfred and had circulated a list of eight […]
Finding News Online
I’m watching with amusement, wondering who will blink first. The Government of Canada has pulled its advertising from Facebook and Google in protest of those companies decision to drop all Canadian news content. Other advertisers are following suit. The issue is recent legislation forcing tech companies to pay for links to news content. The tech […]
In Ruins
I found these two pictures as I was going through some old slides yesterday. Slide film, for the uninitiated, was positive, not negative like print film, and you projected the image onto a screen. I took lot of slides when I started in photography. Black and white film i processed and printed at home, but […]
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