I’m going to start this post with a prediction: we are not yet at the half-way point of the novel coronavirus pandemic. We started more than three months ago, and while in most of Canada, the numbers of new infections look encouraging, we are also starting to see hints of the dreaded second wave. The […]
This is one of those times that clarifies the word surreal. To qualify: I’m neither in quarantine nor isolation. I have no symptoms. I have not been near anyone with symptoms. I have not travelled in over a month. The whole family is healthy and safe. But life is certainly different. Driving to the grocery […]
A lot of time has passed since my last blog post—four months. A third of a year! To tell you the truth, often during the first two months of that time, I wondered myself what was standing between me and updating my blog. I put it down to having too much other (paying) work to […]
I have been torn about how to comment about the current federal election. I am struck by how emotional and fraught it is. But the most glaring characteristic is the amount of fiction the Conservatives base their platform on. In the past few days, they’ve started just making things up about their opponents legalizing hard […]
We hear you, Alberta. We get it. Unemployment is up. Earnings are down. You feel threatened. You feel your children’s future is threatened. We get it. We’ve been there, too. We all have. We all are, right now. Here’s the thing: as a civilization, we cannot afford to keep doing things the way we have […]
From what I have heard on the news, I know I speak for a lot of Canadians on this following. While we are happy to share what we have, please don’t think that buying the prescription medications in Canada, or in any other country, is a solution to the high drug prices you pay in […]
