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UPDATE, March 24, 2023: Toronto Ombudsman’s office published a report today criticizing the City of Toronto for the way it went about clearing the encampments around the city in early 2021. Today, Mayor Tory asserts homelessness is not a problem…
Finally a warm evening! Tonight marks the first double-digit positive temperature of 2021. Life during the pandemic has, for me, been spent almost entirely outdoors. Winter has been especially difficult. Much of the work that needs doing for this blog…
Today was the first mild day of the year. The temperature hovered mid-single-digits into the night. Naked legs and convertibles. The lockdown has really shifted perceptions. We’ve begun in Toronto to re-open, little at a time. Still can’t get my…
A while back I watched Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times.’ It’s hilarious, touching, and an easy watch. The film calls attention to so many of the problems exacerbated by capitalism. Almost one hundred years later, things are not any better.
This is a true story about security guards — one who planted items in my belongings in an apparent attempt to have me arrested, and another who shat on the floor of the bathroom in an attempt to…well, I’m not…
Thrift Store Death Spiral – Three The standard approach to dealing with problems and errors in a system is mitigation. We mitigate the probable cost of crime by employing police, and by doing things like supplying the poor with welfare…
Thrift Store Death Spiral – Two As a result of the time I spent in thrift store book sections, I found some real treasures. Those, I remember happily, were mainly passed along as gifts to friends. I remember with particular…
There’s a term I’ve come to really understand in the past few years, ‘living memory.’ It’s a term that includes us in a group as individuals and as group members. You might define it as social identity. Memory is an…
Thrift Store Death Spiral – One As someone who moved away from home early I often had to find ways to stretch my funds. It wasn’t an entirely unfamiliar situation. At that time, which was before Wal-Mart, before Amazon, and…