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Today London Health Sciences Centre decided to immediately restrict where smokers can lurk outside of city hospitals.   …

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My former colleague Leslie James married his love, Maryann, yesterday in a lovely and sweet ceremony in downtown Toronto.   …

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After 42 days of faint hope, confirmation that abducted 8 year old Tori Stafford is indeed dead is like a tiny knife to the heart.  She became  “our” little girl as we got to know her and worry for her. …

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The deadly consequences of putting mediocre workers in important positions are illuminated in the freshly released transcripts of the conversation between the pilot and copilot of the doomed flight at Buffalo in February.  These fools crashed a plane into a home, killing 50 people.  In hindsight, it’s all so obvious and almost predictable. …

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A few blogs back I waxed on about the city’s forestry department and its efficiency.  They even came and picked up the remnants of our huge, dead tree before last weekend.  For an 8 man department, they’re pretty good.  For us, at least.  We learned that some people have been waiting for months for them to tend to their deceased trees.  We got lucky.  But I digress. …

Ixnay on the Ompliments-cay!Read More »

M is for the muffins she baked for my health. …

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