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October 2025

What’s that old fox up to?
For someone who claims to be anti-war and considers the existence of nuclear weapons to pose the greatest existential risk to humanity, why test more of…
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Gene Balfour
China’s monopoly and the G7 Response
Certain minerals as crucial to many key industries in technologically advanced nations. China has been buying up important sources of those minerals and…
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Back Pain
Yesterday, I spent two hours chainsawing logs for two friends who created firewood with my log splitter. . Later, I played 9 holes of golf pushing my…
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The hippie and the monk.
In the 1950s and 60s, I attended Roman Catholic schools, including a Jesuit private boys high school. The idea of sin and its consequences was…
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What a joke🤣
Whenever PM Mark Carney or Premier Doug Ford attempt to “negotiate” with Donald Trump using tariff “retaliatory measures”, they retreat with their tails…
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Etymology: WORDS and POWER
The word Fascism is often used in an exaggerated manner, referring to a tendency toward or the actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial…
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GROKipedia vs Wikipedia ❓
Elon Musk plans to take on the human-controlled Wikipedia platform with an AI-controlled LLM competitor. The former has become biased by left-leaning…
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Should this man take Ozempic?
The CCCA offers a low cost way to address the #1 threat to tens of millions of citizens - Metabolic Disease. It silently and relentlessly harms their…
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CRISIS as OPPORTUNITY
“Never let a crisis go to waste” is a phrase normally associated with politicians. This also appears to work for religious leaders who claim a religious…
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Canada’s Economic Scorecard
My LETTER to Anne McLellan and Lisa Raitt
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Dying with dignity
Dorothy Snell, my mother-in-law, lived downstairs for nearly ten years. Her eldest daughter, my darling wife, has many great memories of those years…
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