Household Journal

First 16 weeks of lockdown

Canada joined the world in instructing everyone to stay home, and maintain a ‘social separation.’ We recorded our life, and our dinner, during our stay-at-home period in Mississauga starting in mid-March of 2020. We thought it would be interesting to record our thoughts and observations as the world grappled with the COVID-19 virus in 2020. To date, we have recorded some four months of our thoughts as the COVID-19 situation has progressed locally, in Canada and around the world.

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Canada Day 2017

Bob’s Canada Day Message Saturday July 1 is the day Canada turns 150 years young. Ontario was one of the ‘original four’ provinces of Canada, along with Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Prince Edward Island was very close to joining Canada in 1867, but wanted more time to talk about it. Prince Edward Islanders valued dialogue and discussion as much then as Canadians do now. PEI finally joined Canada in 1873. Manitoba had joined…

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