This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.
I’m getting more and more interested in smart devices with my most recent purchase being three smart floodlights which I installed in my garage so that the neighbours can enjoy my obsession too! Easter… Calgary Flames Game Night… Anniversary of Humboldt Broncos Tragedy…
A nice confluence of events with it being Easter, me completing my taxes, and the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) releasing a report on the status of churches as charities.
Doing some quick research about yesterday’s post led to me to discover the Roud Folk Song Index which I don’t think I’d heard of before but which reminds me once again (as if I need reminding!), why librarians and archivists are so vital to society (and also interesting, witty and funny!): The Roud Folk Song […]
But of course the experts knew all along that it would be shocking! 😉
I mean, a year ago to the day, I was making jokes about “Corona” virus using Mexican beers as a prop so Covid was definitely on my radar. But no, I did not expect a full shutdown of most parts of society, working from home for months, wearing mask for the bulk of the year, […]
The floundering Flames shocked the hockey world by firing their coach late Thursday night (after a victory even!) and announcing that former coach, Darryl Sutter, who led them to the game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals in 2004 before coming up short, would be retaking the reins of the team. That run was when […]
We’re into the same month as when Covid became real and the world shut-down mid-month so I’ll likely be posting a few different retrospective posts, whether it’s “Throwback Thursday” or not over the next few weeks. For example, here’s all my tweets from March 2020. I loved this tweet (but not that I managed a […]
Shea and I have been showing the kids a lot of our favourite movies from when we were growing up – “Dirty Dancing” to “Adventures in Babysitting” to “Airplane!” – movies that both of us remember being allowed to watch by our parents at relatively young ages with no censorship or restrictions (*maybe* I’d […]
Donald Trump’s *second* impeachment began yesterday and this was one of the first videos shown summarizing the insurrection of January 6 (very telling it comes with a warning!)…
