Category: news
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If You Don’t Like Swine Flu, Stop Having Sex With Pigs
Here is some perspective. There have been six cases of swine flu in Canada so far. The chance of dying from swine flu if you get it is less than 1%. So if you randomly shuffled Canada’s 33 million people and gave six of them swine flu, the probability of you dying from it is…
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Earth Day and Plastic Bags
Today is Earth day, and it was announced that Loblaws will start charging for plastic bags. It’s in a partnership with the World Wildlife Fund, and framed as an environment-enhancing way of keeping bags out of landfills and from “blowing around the neighbourhood.” The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Listen, I do everything I…
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Putting Weird Things in Coffee
I’d like to announce the birth of a new blog. I’ve been saying for a while that I want to create a more specialized blog to go alongside this one. Something that fills, or perhaps creates, a niche that nobody else has ventured into. I thought of making a food blog – something catchy, like,…
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