Category Society
Climate Uncertainty
Ottawa’s famed Rideau Canal skateway didn’t open to skaters this winter, for the first time since it was established in 1971. It was too warm A couple of thousand kilometres to the west, the city of Winnipeg didn’t have a day in March where the temperatures rose above freezing. Coldest it has been since 1889. […]
A Last Easter Reflection
Sitting in church yesterday for teh Easter Sunday service it felt almost crowded. While the sanctuary wasn’t more than half full, it seemed to me to be the biggest crowd in years. And that’s not counting those who attended online. We’ve been through a pandemic, though the experts warn that it isn’t over yet. Things […]
An Easter Bonus
Now that the meal is over, I thought I would share one of your favorite Easter posts. First published in 2016, this is still among the most read here each year. It’s Easter, and today I miss Johnny Hart. The creator of two popular late 20th century comic strips died in 2007. Neither the Wizard of […]
No Surprise
Tuesday night I was waffling about whether I should go in to work Wednesday or work from home. The weather forecast was bad, and I had brought work home with me, just in case. Wednesday morning everything seemed fine. The bad forecast remained, freezing rain, but it hadn’t started. I figured I was go to […]
April Fools
I was waiting for later in the day to share with you the best April Fools jokes for 2023. Problem is, I can’t find any that I think are particularly funny. Well, maybe the one about Tinder banning photos of men holding fish. Who knew that was a thing? Why isn’t it true? And how […]
The Headline
It was a news alert in my email inbox. “California to require half of all heavy trucks to be electric by 2035.” My first thought was, front half or back half? My next thought was: left half or right half? Yes, my mind is rather warped at times. After that, I began to wonder how […]
A Canadian Tradition
For his first Christmas I bought my grandson some Mini -sticks. He was too young for miniature hockey sticks of course, but I was looking to the future. And it isn’t as if his parents could buy them in Africa. For his second Christmas I bought him another stick, figuring he needed one to go […]
More Weckensonntag
When I think about it, my experience with this unique festival was rather limited. I was captivated by it our first year in Sulzburg, 2018. I missed the 2019 festival becasue we were traveling, though at the moment I can’t remember where. Greece maybe. In 2020 and 2021 the festival was canceled due to the […]
The TikTok Results
Just in case you were wondering…in our less than scientific poll on people’s use of the TikTok app on their phones: Forty-four per cent (44%) of respondents said they would never have TikTok on their phone, but do have other social media apps. I didn’t answer the survey, but that is the category I would […]
The TikTok Question
This week the Canadian government banned TikTok from government phones, following the lead of several other countries. In the US, legislation has been introduced that would ban the app entirely. There are security concerns about the data the app collects, and the ability of the government of China to access that data. The assumption appears […]
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