Tag Archives: COVID-19
2021 In Review: Slim Pickings
The eighth most popular post here in 2021 was a 2020 offering that surprised me. I thought I had posted much funnier COVID humor earlier in the pandemic – but the numbers say differently. Looking at these today, 15 months after I first posted them, I still smile. But like everyone else, I just want […]
Wecome to 2022!
It has become an annual tradition. At the beginning of January I post the top ten most viewed posts here from the previous year. Maybe it is a leftover from my radio days and those end-of-year countdowns. Those posts will start tomorrow. This year I have noticed a real difference. And it isn’t only that […]
Another Year Ends
This isn’t where we wanted to be. This isn’t where they promised we would be at the end of the year. As 2021 draws to a close we find ourselves in the same mental place we were at the end of 2020 – hoping the COVID-19 pandemic will end soon. But this time not believing it […]
Welcome To 1984
A friend in the U.K. wanted to know if I had seen the news article. Was I aware that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) had been tracking 33 million Canadian cell phones to monitor citizens’ movement during the pandemic? I hadn’t seen that specific article – but I knew it was going on. […]
A Year Later…
I started a post for today, but have decided to abandon it. It was to be a reflection on Boxing Day shopping in this COVID world. Except I am not shopping today. Which has nothing to do with COVID. I haven’t even looked at any sale flyers to se what the temptations might be. There’s […]
No School Today
Public schools in Ontario are closed for the Christmas break (which they probably call a winter break, I haven’t checked). When they will reopen is a matter of some conjecture. The Premier said on Friday that it was too early to say if schools would reopen in January, given the COVID case count. Too me […]
The Rule of Law
Back in my teens there was a television show that ran for several seasons that made fun of the law. Given the times in which we live, I’m surprised someone hasn’t revived it. Then again, it would probably be shut down by either the government or proponents of cancel culture. The governmnet doesn’t like people […]
Rethinking COVID
As we prepare to celebrate our second COVID Christmas, maybe it is time to stop kidding ourselves and accept the new reality. This isn’t going away anytime soon. Instead of trying to beat COVID-19, perhaps it is time we learned to live with it. There are precedents after all. In Canada about three thousand people […]
Food For Thought
It is well known that, with their approximately 14-million-to-one odds against hitting the jackpot, lottery tickets are not part of any sound retirement portfolio. Despite this, 34 percent of Canadians in a 2014 poll reported that they played the lotto in the hopes of supplementing their future retirement income. If judging the likelihood of a lottery win […]
Where Is The Uproar?
I gave it a week to simmer, to allow my outrage to die down. It hasn’t. What concerns me though is that no-one I have spoken with recently has mentioned to me that we have been part of a military experiment. Do Canadians not care? I have been asked dozens of times since returning to […]
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