Elevator stuff

If the World were to end tomorrow how would we know?

Out for a morning walk in Toronto and a "V" formation of 25 migrating birds flew by high overhead on their way South for the winter.

The Star is taking a very active role in consensus building around a heavily torqued and misrepresented poll.

Reminder from the past.

Hey kids, I think Doug Ford has cancelled monitoring the wastewater signal that facilitated understanding the incidence of COVID. That just doesn't sound smart.

Cold today and the large butternut tree in our yard is dropping fronds like bombs with petioles down.

Globe and Mail headline this morning -- French government collapses deepening political crisis

When we had an island cottage in the fifties this is what was in the pumphouse

Canada Post is a public service and we should NOT expect it to make a profit. Do we expect parks to turn a profit? Or emergency services? Do roads turn a profit? Canada Post provides a broad service to Canadians and SHOULD be government funded and maintained.

Old tin used to store museum keys. Really.

It's not easy to leave an old bunch of data adrift in the void on bygone hosts but early adopters have probably done it many times

California firefighters invented modern incident management and emergency communication. What we now know as IMS in Canada and NIMS in the US started in California as FIRESCOPE in 1972. If Californians are having a hard time with this fire, you know it’s bad.

If Loblaws wanted to fix its reputation with Canadians overnight, they'd drop the price of all Canadian-made goods by 10-25% and add flags of origin to every price tag.

People with unprincipled motives undermine what is good and proper, and we see that being acted-out in stark focus at this moment in time.

The USA has lost its way, not because of the citizens but because of a few vile billionaires.

Was it only a Scaramucci minute ago that Republicans campaigned on upholding "the rule of law"?