Category: Life Musings
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Strange Societal Values
Okay once again I need to start with a disclaimer; I love animals. In fact I love animals so much that for 15 years of my life I even refused to eat them. That’s more than most people can say. I also love dogs. I very much love dogs. I’ve had a dog or dogs…
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The Truman Show Vs the Walking Dead
Before I begin I want to make it clear that this blog is not a cry out for help and I’m not going to do anything drastic or crazy or stupid. I also want to let you know that I may use the occasional expletive or swear word, so be forewarned. Have you ever thought…
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Amazon dot ca Vs dot com
Check this out for an absolutely ridiculous situation; if you shop on Amazon dot ca rather than Amazon dot com you can expect to pay significantly more for the very same products. I was recently looking for a cast iron tortilla press (don’t ask why I was looking for a tortilla press!). Seeing as there were…
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Making New Year’s Resolutions
Traditionally on or around the beginning of the New Year people make resolutions. They make resolutions to make changes that they’re going to make in their life to attempt to make their lives better. Typically I do not make New Year’s resolutions because I’ve always thought of them as kind of arbitrary and well, let’s…
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Christmas Tree Disposal Options
Some of the more Grinch-like people I know have already taken their Christmas tree or Festivus Pole down and are already struggling with the Christmas tree disposal question. Rather than throwing your Christmas tree over your back fence into your neighbour’s yard, consider reducing inter-neighbour conflict by disposing of your natural Christmas tree at one…
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Community Consultation Hijacked?
Over the last couple of years a buzz word that I hear a lot (too much of) is “community consultation”. Any change that a business or community wants to make has to go through a “consultation process” to help the impacted community members come to terms with what is about to happen to their community.…
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Changing Attitudes about Christmas Day
I don’t know your feelings about this topic or issue but I am feeling quite shocked at the way that Christmas Day is now treated. Christmas Day is one of the biggest days to open movie blockbusters. Christmas movies like “Into the Woods”, a sort of freakish remaking of all the classic and horribly disturbing…
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A New Take on Age Groupings
For no really good reason other than the fact that I like the idea that I am able to influence public policy, I get many emails with surveys in them asking me important public policy questions like “do you own or rent the home you live in and how many toilets are there in your…
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Batteries Not Included
Not much of a blog post today, more of a little rant. So here it is – at what point did some marketing asshat decide that the simple toothbrush needs to have batteries? The simple and straight forward act of brushing your teeth now requires a device that requires batteries? What a stupid idea. What…
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Coquitlam Improving Waste Diversion
Although the people of Coquitlam are just three months into the new solid waste collection program, it is already yielding positive results in waste diversion. One of the major goals of the new solid waste collection program was to increase participation in the City’s green waste program thereby reducing the amount of compostable trash going…