I'm in the colonies, visiting Mum in her new retirement home. She moved to this location in Barrie in October, and I wanted to see it in winter, when Barrie is at its least charming ( Read more... )

I came back from the colonies with a lot on my mind ( Read more... )

Canadians take their summer weather for granted. They have no idea how blessed they are to not have to feel like the weather is out to get you on a daily basis ( Read more... )

I don't like seeing Ottawa in the news, except on 1 July ( Read more... )

I'm carefully scanning CBC news to keep track of the progress of the cold weather in my first homeland.

So I go to the homepage, cbc.ca....and find that the cold weather is actually world news, not national news. Bad weather is happening in the US, eh? so we'd better cover it, sort of.

But the hockey, well, the Canadian hockey team gets double ( Read more... )

Canadian government's war on science.

If you don't have the evidence, you can't make evidence-based decisions. But apparently if it's evidence based, it's on the block.

Let Canada's scientists speak.

Is this getting any coverage in Canada? Does anyone care?

It's strange feeling both at home, and a foreigner, in two countries, which is how I feel upon returning to my Thamesreach home ( Read more... )

...and I'm flying shortly, myself ( Read more... )

Mum seems recuperating at an astonishing rate; minimum of pain meds, doing her recommended exercises, moving around the house largely without the new walker. She'd been unwilling to even walk from kitchen to bathroom without it last week ( Read more... )

Tomorrow Robert and I leave for a week in Canada, mostly on the outskirts of TO ( Read more... )