Inflation is higher than it has been in four decades. A global pandemic has erased two years of our lives, broken supply chains, and damaged globalization irreparably. War has returned to peaceful Europe and brought with it the possibility of nuclear conflict. Wages have been stagnant for decades. The cost…

Picking up from where we left off, a stunning revelation! Gerry can find fault in his adopted country. This is how you know he’s fair in his assertions and not toeing the party line for money. Gerry Take #4 — I mean, it’s not a utopia or anything…*

There’s an adage that’s been floating around the internet in conservative circles for some time now. Facts don’t care about your feelings. It’s the idea that whatever you may personally believe or feel about the topic at hand, it really doesn’t matter ultimately. Not in the nihilistic sense of everything…

In recent years companies and governments alike have begun to acknowledge that the land upon which they wield their power and make their fortunes once belonged to others. While they will do little beyond starting a meeting with someone reading from a sterile script, it is seen as at worst…

Siri has the right to refuse work if she feels that she is being mistreated. Swear when giving her a command and you will be met with “I won’t respond to that.” There is no recourse to work out this disagreement but she can tell me to take a walk…

Last year during the height of the pandemic one of Canada’s biggest companies began a new campaign focused on “personal resilience.” This was part of their ongoing efforts to put people first. As a Progressive Corporation Who Cares™, they really make the effort to better the lives of their employees. …

Some of us have lived with lockdown measures in one way or another since the beginning of the pandemic. Not on and off with the ever present specter of another sudden revocation of our basic rights looming over us. An ongoing, grinding set of restrictions and rules applied to various…

I want to introduce you to my new friend Gerry. As full as the internet is of opinions and blogs and vlogs, most of it is boring. But every now and then you happen upon something so great, so incredibly unapologetic that it’s like catching lightning in a bottle. Gerry…

There is evidence of tropical trees in Greenland, I’m told. So the planet was naturally much warmer than it is now. Ice sheets are getting thicker, not thinner. The planet was supposed to freeze in the 1970’s. Acid rain was going to wipe out the rainforest. Every other weather related…