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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Vertical Forest in Taiwan

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Climate change is the most serious crisis facing humanity.  It is a moral issue, an economic issue, a survival issue and much more. That is...
Monday, April 19, 2021

2021 Oscars Quiz

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The 93rd Academy Awards will be held on April 25, 2021. They will be forever known as the COVID Oscars.  The live show will start at 8 p.m....
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Some riddles and wordplay for a spring day

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Feeling stressed and overburdened?  It's April and we are still in the midst of a nightmarish pandemic.  If you need some relief to get ...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Children of Dieppe: My novel is available to Toronto Public Library patrons

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  To Readers of Number 16 I have some new to share with you.  My novel, Children of Dieppe , is now available in ebook form to Toronto Publi...
Sunday, April 4, 2021

Thoughts on a Second COVID Easter

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  "So we come to the end of April. even a chilly April, with birdsong around us and some of spring's color; and we feel the strengt...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

The Conservative Party of Canada won't recognize climate change crisis

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Erin O'Toole The Conservative Party of Canada (no longer "Progressive" Conservative) is moving in a dangerous direction - furt...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

COVID masks and freedom

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It's very difficult for me to fathom why some people, particularly Trump followers and Republicans in states such as Texas, feel that we...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Reflections on International Women's Day

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"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel.  It is man's injustice to women.  If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, i...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Quebec City Snow Sculptures by Denis Gravel

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Last March, I posted some photos of some sculptures by talented Quebec City snow sculptor Denis Gravel.  Here are some more photos of his sc...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Why the U.S. Republican Party is on the wrong side of history

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  What has happened to the Republican Party of the United States is sad and tragic.  The party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dw...

Attention Canada!! Don't throw this out. It's not junk mail.

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Hey Canada, if you've received this in the mail, don't throw it out.  I almost discarded it myself until I looked at it more careful...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Canada's vaccine response is extremely disappointing

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    Here in Toronto, Canada's largest city, we have been in lockdown since the day after Christmas.  The Ontario government's stay-a...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Valentine's Day Trivia

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  "Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in...