Is artificial intelligence going to take over our jobs and leave us all unemployed? Relax, my children. Hi-tech Luddites, put away your social media scythes and hammers. We’ve been through all this before. When mechanical looms started putting out smoother cloth than handloom weavers, it created more jobs in the factories. When word processors…
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Colonial Selfishness in Medicine
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I have written before about our exploitation of third-world medical systems, but a news report this week brought home to all Canadians how despicable this practice is. Added to that, our unwillingness to educate our own healthcare providers has contributed to the mess in our hospitals. How Would We Feel? What if you met…
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Anti-Monopoly Rules Don’t Apply to Winners
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A couple of examples in the news recently demonstrate clearly how another myth of capitalism doesn’t work. Big kafuffle because two of the major players in Canadian Telecom want to merge. The Government Departments that Pretend to Control Big Business jumped into action and held their meetings. Recommendations from everyone came down that this joining…
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Mouths
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https://www.today.com/food/chewing-mouth-open-t262505 Copyright Yagi Studio Okay, too much portentous political stuff lately. Now that we’re started out on the new year, we can look about for other serious problems to study. And the first travesty that forces itself into my consciousness is a disgusting habit that is appearing more and more in TV commercials: Mouths. Huge,…
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2022: The Era of Idiocy Continues
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Okay, we’ve been watching the “Best and Worst of the News” on all the media, and everyone is astounded at the absolutely inane doctrines that people have been taking seriously. What can it mean when large blocs of people seem to be falling under the spell of such obvious manipulators? “I know I’m right…
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Toxic Culture, Toxic Sports
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Looking through the year’s posts, I feel this is the topic that could use summing up. I may sound a bit like a broken record on this subject, but here goes. I applaud the recent efforts of the new Board of Governors at Hockey Canada to work on the “toxic culture” of hockey. Just like…
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Canada’s Medical Crisis is Political
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Why is Canadian health care in such a mess? Our medical personnel and their training facilities are considered among the best in the world. Yes, there must be organizational problems, but most commentators agree it’s a problem of funding, starting at universities and working all the way through the system down to the wages of…
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Sick and Tired and Not Going to Take it Anymore (Yet another time)
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Quickly now, and off the top of your head. What’s the most frustrating element of the business of life in our society right now? What wastes the most of your time for no good reason? If you said, “Waiting on hold,” I wouldn’t be surprised. It Isn’t Necessary Keeping customers waiting on hold is a…
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In Memory of Josh
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Small children, bouncy puppies, nervous little dogs and beach walkers in Tsawwassen will mourn the loss of Josh (Readyfor’s Kalamity J). He died this week after a mercifully short illness brought on by cancer, predeceased this spring by his brother and lifelong buddy, Oliver. He was a real character, a personality cross between a retriever…
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Watching Paint Dry in the Panama Canal
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People choose their holiday destinations for many different reasons: competition, nostalgia, comfort, change of pace, ego, history, anthropology, archaeology, partying, you name it. Sometimes — and often you don’t know it until you get there — you have to go somewhere in person because there is just no other way to live it. Nothing can…