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GM Announces Factory Closures
Closures Announced This past November, General Motors announced that it would be closing 5 plants in North America to shift focus to electric and autonomous vehicles. The announcement came as a shock to many, including employees of the plants now scheduled to close, and the union that supports those employees. Such an announcement can be […]
Happy New Year
Ringing in The New Year Well, 2019 has finally arrived and it’s time to get back to work and get things going again. This past holiday season, we decided to drive up to Timmins, Ontario where our daughter is now living. It was the first long trip we made with our dog Sunny and we […]
Back at It
Once again, I slacked off and haven’t written anything in a couple of weeks. I have been down with the flu for the last week and haven’t had the energy to tackle much of the daily tasks, let alone getting in a few hours of writing. I did spend some time working on a website […]
My New Floating Backyard Fence
Floating Fence I know that there will be some who will be wondering how one would build a floating fence, or even state outright that such a fence cannot be built. So I will explain how and why I built such a fence. My wife and I live in a coop housing community that consists […]
My Summer Music and Book List
Summer is Here We have almost burned through the first full month of summer. Here in Ottawa, we’ve been breaking heat records when it comes to consecutive number of day’s with temperatures above 30 degrees Celcius. As is often said when it comes to summer heat, it’s not the temperature, but the humidity that hits […]
Justin Is at It Again
Did He or Didn’t He It was recently reported that our infamous Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was involved in a groping incident that took place almost 20 years ago. Just to clarify, he was the groper and the woman who says the incident took place was a reporter at the Creston Daily Advance, a newspaper […]
Another School Shooting
Shooter Kills 10 In Texas It’s been just over a week since the last school shooting in the United States took place. This time the school was in Santa Fe, Texas, a community of 13,000 located about 30 miles southeast of the Houston, Texas area. The shooter was able to get a gun into the […]
Another Royal Wedding Over
Prince Harry Gets Hitched For all the royal watchers out there, this past weekend was one they have been waiting for. For those that aren’t royal watchers, Prince Harry married his long-time girlfriend, Meghan Markle. Personally, I have no idea what the fuss is all about as I have very little interest in the royal […]
It’s Been Awhile
Events of the Last Month I know it’s been awhile since I last posted anything. I was down with the flu for a couple weeks and then my wife and I took a little vacation to Las Vegas. It was the first time either of us has been there and we were able to time […]
Canadian Politics
An Afternoon of CPAC I decided this afternoon that I would turn on CPAC and watch some coverage from our House of Commons proceedings and see how the world of Canadian politics is progressing. Many years ago, I used to tune in when I had nothing else to do just to learn about our parliamentary […]