Tag Archives: Alcohol
The Booze Bandwagon
Turns out drinking alcohol is bad for you. Who would have suspected that? Maybe everyone. On Tuesday the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction released new guidelines an alcohol consumption and the potential health risks of drinking are more than previously thought. Any more than one or two drinks a week significantly increases your […]
Boisterous
There was a party going on, though I never did figure out what the occasion was. It did show me the difference between Canadian and German liquor laws. Actually, I’m not sure if there are German liquor laws. We took the train to Freiburg Sunday morning at 10;30. You would think that at that time […]
A Matter of Life or Death
I’m not sure if I have an opinion as to who should win, but I am very curious as to the outcome of a recently filed lawsuit here in Ontario. It is a matter of life and death, but also a question of taking responsibility and discovering actions have consequences. A seriously ill man is […]
A Drinking Problem?
At first glance the news story could be seen as weird example of persecution of Christians in the Middle East. The Iraqi Parliament has prohibited the importation, production and sale of alcohol. The booze sellers are all Christians. And with this move the Iraqi government has attacked the livelihoods of a significant number of people. […]
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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