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I walked down the street to get take-out food tonight for the Wednesday Canadian Kitchen Party in support of Canadian restaurants (it’s happening again next week on Facebook, with some well-known Canadian musicians - join if you can). It was at the end of what would normally be rush hour, and it was eerie. There were few cars and fewer pedestrians ( Read more... )

I have been thinking a fair bit lately about how we build habits. It comes up every year around New Year's, partly because I have been working for a while to develop permanent behaviour changes that I post about here. Some have gone well, and some - not so much ( Read more... )

I think a lot about food security, partly because it's what I do at work, but also because it's a local issue that I connect with. I live in a fairly wealthy neighbourhood but some of the poorest people in the city live nearby (including residents of one of the city's largest homeless shelters, right on my bike route to work). Food insecurity and ( Read more... )