Mittens, scarves and boots, oh my!
December is a challenging month. With a front hall full of extra jackets, winter boots, mittens, scarves, woolly socks and boot trays, it’s easy to see winter has arrived a little bit early. I’m not sure when I’ll get tired of sweeping up “road salt” and mopping up puddles of icy cold water. I may […]
A lucky man?
I feel badly for Andrew Scheer. After having won the leadership of his party on the basis of his apparent ability to straddle the gap between ‘socially conservative’ Conservatives and ‘socially liberal’ Conservatives, he finds clowns to the left of him and jokers to the right, all searching for his scalp. The socially conservative see […]
The cold old days
Let it snow! The second snow storm of the fall has hit us hard. Honestly, I don’t remember exactly when the snow fell when I was a kid. I do know we had a green Christmas the year I was eleven and a few winters when the hike across Strathburn Park then the two-block walk […]
It’s the glossy season
A young businesswoman I know asked me if I’d seen a recent article in a Toronto newspaper about two local tourist attractions/businesses. I hadn’t, but I knew which places she was speaking of. Both of those businesses do get a lot of press. Sometimes it’s press that looks like “travel news”, other times it’s press […]
The Case for Impatient Optimists
I didn’t give the subject of Bill Gates much thought until I heard his wife Melinda Gates interviewed on the radio earlier this year, which prompted me to read her 2019 book The Moment of Lift; which in turn led me to watch the three-part documentary series now showing on Netflix, entitled Inside Bill’s Brain. […]
Time to pay up
Last week, council was tasked with deciding whether to give itself a ‘raise’. I use the word raise lightly, because an inflation index adjustment is not really a raise. It takes into consideration changes in the price level of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services. This means that technically, it’s only […]
Mr. Cherry’s suits
So Don Cherry is off the air —or at least the air controlled by Rogers. The suggestion is that he was fired after he rejected the opportunity to make the sort or grovelling apology that his co-host Ron MacLean made early last week. A nation waited with bated breath last Saturday to see what would […]
FitBit™ this
A FitBit. Yep, I’ve got one. I don’t know how that happened, except I did use a few AirMiles and maybe I was inspired by a friend at the gym. The way I figure it my Gym-sista, who is rocking the fitness, had the nerve to talk all about how happy she was with her […]
Far away places with strange sounding names
So Wellington got hammered again by the wicked wind from the west—and lived to tell the tale. Still, those big, beautiful old trees that we lost won’t be replaced by trees of equivalent stature any time soon. The truth is that we are probably pretty lucky in the County that our most adverse events are […]
Blunder to wonder
Well, the County has had its first taste of winter and there’s still over a month to go before it actually is l’hiver. At this time last year we were in Brandon, Manitoba. It snowed the day LOML and I arrived and the warmest it got was about minus 20, during the month of November. […]