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Policy Born Out of Panic
April 26, 2024
It is astonishing how the federal and Ontario governments announced a fifteen billion dollar incentive to Honda to set up a car battery plant in Ontario yesterday while they encouraged the municipalities last week to eliminate the requirement for parking for multiple unit developments. So, the message is to make more cars but provide no parking! Let me describe what…
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#canada#construction#highrise development#honda#housing#housing shortage#immigration#ottawa#parking#residential lot#stellantis#volkswagen
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Policy Born Out of Panic
April 26, 2024
It is astonishning how the federal and Ontario governments announced a fifteen billion dollar incentive to Honda to set up a car battery plant in Ontario yesterday while they encouraged the municipalities last week to eliminate the requirement for parking for multiple unit developments. So, the message is to make more cars but provide no parking! Let me describe what…
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#canada#highrise buildings#honda#housing policy#immigration#no parking#ottawa#residential lots#stellantis#volkswagen
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Awkward Facts
April 17, 2024
The Covid crisis brought to my attention the Canadian Government’s recent flood of announcements to address the ‘housing crisis.’ To contextualize this ”crisis,” I delved into statistics. I discovered that sixty-five percent of Canadians own their homes (and therefore experience no housing crisis), and the income-to-house price ratio has skyrocketed over the last decade. This has…
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#British medical journal#canada#covid#covid costs#covid-19#health#housing#immigration#ottawa#vaccination#vaccine#WHO
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Awkward Facts
April 17, 2024
The Covid crisis brought to my attention the Canadian Government’s recent flood of announcements to address the ‘housing crisis.’ To contextualize this ”crisis,” I delved into statistics. I discovered that sixty-five percent of Canadians own their homes (and therefore experience no housing crisis), and the income-to-house price ratio has skyrocketed over the last decade. This has…
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The Eclipse, April 8, 2:12 pm
The Eclipse, April 8, 2:12 pm
Kathy said we should see the eclipse. She said: It happens once in a lifetime; the next one will come in forty years. And it is fantastic! The news media estimated a million people would visit Niagara Falls to watch the eclipse; hotels tripled their room rates there. After reading about how to watch the eclipse, Kathy ordered appropriate sunglasses from Amazon, and…
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The Eclipse, April 8, 2:12 pm
April 12, 2024
Kathy said we should see the eclipse. She said: It happens once in a lifetime; the next one will come in forty years. And it is fantastic! The news media estimated a million people would visit Niagara Falls to watch the eclipse; hotels tripled their room rates there. After reading about how to watch the eclipse, Kathy ordered appropriate sunglasses from Amazon, and the package…
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Zooming with Cottage Neighbors
April 2, 2024
I push the join button on Zoom and face 18 somber people on the screen, members of our cottagers’ association. Nobody speaks. With a look of expectation on their faces, they appear serious. I ask: can you hear me? Some say yes. I grab my glass of wine while Kathy brings our dinner at 7 pm. We decided to eat our dinner during the Zoom call.
Looking at the Zoom participants, I ask…
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#canada#constitutions#cottage associations#Cottaging#florida#lakefront#land transfer#new hampshire#toroonto#travel
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Zooming with Cottage Neighbors
April 2, 2024
I push the join button on Zoom and face 18 somber people on the screen, members of our cottagers’ association. Nobody speaks. With a look of expectation on their faces, they appear serious. I ask: can you hear me? Some say yes. I grab my glass of wine while Kathy brings our dinner at 7 pm. We decided to eat our dinner during the Zoom call.
Looking at the Zoom participants, I ask…
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The Men's Book Club
March 19, 2024
One suggested forming a book club at our monthly luncheon of retired friends. It could have been the spicy food at the Indian restaurant that triggered our brain cells to ponder that our wives belong to book clubs while we do not. We discussed that women have many social networks while men do not. Some argued that men traditionally went to work while women raised children at home,…
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#book club#Cold War#East Germany#hungary#Iron Curtain#John Le Carre#reading#spy story#United Kingdom
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The Men's Book Club
March 19, 2024
One suggested forming a book club at our monthly luncheon of retired friends. It could have been the spicy food at the Indian restaurant that triggered our brain cells to ponder that our wives belong to book clubs while we do not. We discussed that women have many social networks while men do not. Some argued that men traditionally went to work while women raised children at home,…
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#book club#Cold War#East Germany#hungary#Iron Curtain#Le Carre#spy story#The Looking Glass War#United Kingdom
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How I Accumulated a Lifetime of Pictures and What to Do with Them
February 28, 2024
I am sitting in front of three boxes full of a lifetime collection of pictures, trying to figure out what to do with them. But wait! What about the albums on the shelves? There are twenty-four albums chock-full of photos. But there is more: I inherited my father’s twenty-five albums, including duplicates of the images I gave him. His albums also have pictures he brought out…
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How I Accumulated a Lifetime of Pictures and What to do with Them
February 28, 2024
I am sitting in front of three boxes full of a lifetime collection of pictures, trying to figure out what to do with them. But wait! What about the albums on the shelves? There are twenty-four albums chock-full of photos. But there is more: I inherited my father’s twenty-five albums, including duplicates of the images I gave him. His albums also have pictures he brought out…
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Too Many Power Outages?
February 23, 2024
Our local hydro company representatives came to present “how to make our network more resilient to power outages.” Close to forty people attended the information session held at the community center.
Sarah, the hydro person responsible for “community outreach,” introduced Joe, who introduced himself as the person responsible for metering and substations. Before he arrived at…
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#canada#community outreach#derecho#hydro#ice storm#infrared monitoring#maintenance#ottawa#Ottawa hydro#powe outage#tree pruning
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Too Many Power Outages?
February 23, 2024
Our local hydro company representatives came to present “how to make our network more resilient to power outages.” Close to forty people attended the information session held at the community center.
Sarah, the hydro person responsible for “community outreach,” introduced Joe, who introduced himself as the person responsible for metering and substations. Before he arrived at…
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#canada#community outreach#derecho#hydro#ice storm#infrared monitoring#ottawa#power outages#tree pruning#wiring
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Climate Change: From X-Country Skiing to Urban Walking
February 15, 2024
We have always done x-country skiing in Ottawa for fun and exercise during the winter months. Snow could come as early as December but never later than by Xmas. We have always had up-to-date equipment, and nothing was better than being outdoors in the fresh air on a sunny day. Sometimes, it was cold, but layered clothing did the trick, and when it was frigid, we started skiing…
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Climate Change: From X-country Skiing to Urban Walking
February 15, 2024
We have always done x-country skiing in Ottawa for fun and exercise during the winter months. Snow could come as early as December but never later than by Xmas. We have always had up-to-date equipment, and nothing was better than being outdoors in the fresh air on a sunny day. Sometimes, it was cold, but layered clothing did the trick, and when it was frigid, we started skiing…
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What is Canadian Culture
February 7, 2024
During a lively discussion with friends, I asked: what is Canadian culture? After a surprising period of thoughtful quiet, someone suggested that Canada has musicians, authors, and artists who combine to define Canadian culture. But I said that many of these have made their career in the US. For example, Celine Dion, Joni Mitchell, and The Guess Who (Burton Cummings) have become…
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#burton cummings#canada#Cottaging#don cherry#feve au lard#hockey#immigration#inuit#margaret atwood#mckenzie brothers#melting pot#multiculuralism#ondaatje#poutine#president bush#Quebec#rick mercer#Rohinton mistry#sri lanka#the guess who#this hour has twenty minutes#throat singing#tim horton#tourtiere#transnational state#zimbabwe
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