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Bumbling Bureaucracy
I got a letter from the government. They wanted me to get a new health card. I ignored it. Ontario has been “upgrading” the cards citizens use to access our healthcare system. When I first moved to the province the cards were paper. Sometime in the 1970s they switched to plastic cards, red and white […]
Today’s Deal
But 1 Get 2 FREE! Sounds like a great deal. I’m not sure I need more ties (does anyone?) but at that price I would at least look. But there’s a catch. The offer, which showed up in my email this morning from a Moores, the Canadian men’s clothing chain, is good today only. Today […]
The Tax Scam
By now there must be a warrant out for my arrest. And a subpoena. If this post ends in mid- sentence you know they came and took me away. It is all my fault of course. I am a procrastinator. If it can wait until tomorrow I usually let it. So when I came home […]
Hung Over
At age 17, more than 40 years ago, after finishing high school, I entered the workforce. My first full-time job was as a mail clerk in a law firm. It was a big firm and there were usually about ten of us working in the mail room, dealing with a couple of thousand pieces of […]
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