Recent content by Pheroze

An example to consider In the 1970s a 30 year old woman suffered a blood clot that killed off her intestines. She became my father’s patient. Her prognosis was death by starvation. In today’s world, she would have met with the designated MaID person and arranged for her death. Fortunately, it...

For Christ’s sake make sure she doesn’t look too good in the photos! Otherwise there could be years of simmering concern. And, make sure your body language leans away from her at all times. Whether to offer to help cover the wardrobe - you can’t go wrong to offer as she is doing you a favour.

A total tragedy. I don’t think warehousing him is really a societal benefit either. Honestly if I had the answer they would call we Yahweh. I have faith that humans have the ingenuity and intelligence to figure out our challenges. Cities are getting bigger, and we have more people on the...

The problem is that it is less about “dignity” and more about efficiency. Dignity would mean that this program would be part of a fully funded palliative care scheme. That would be a dignified way to treat people with chronic degenerative disease. Unfortunately it isn’t, because that is too...

I wore the original Tilley hat for decades until it just plain wore out. It is kinda dorky but unbelievably functional. I bought a replacement. I have been told they have stopped making them. For a lark I wore a pith helmet on my last safari. To my surprise I discovered that it is probably one...

This is an excellent introduction to African calibres and rifles. It distills a lot of the information I gathered over the years of being on AH.

Sounds perfect to me!

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I am still chuckling about “insult Olympics”. It can be applied in so many places today. It’s erroneous only because the fact is that we have gone Pro a long time ago.

The Premier never ceases to amaze me with his chosen endorsements. I don’t think he is as conservative as he pretends https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/16/doug-ford-olivia-chow-toronto-election-october/

This is an article that sat heavy with me this morning. https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-09-16/korean-war-unknown-soldier-arlington-cemetery-22876188.html

This is a cool bit of history that I did not know. I hope it can be opened

The restrictions on trade is in the current agreement too, and NAFTA. It was to prevent Chinese goods being passed off as Canadian. Well, that is exactly what has happened. We are guilty as charged. When John Turner warned a doubting electorate that free trade would gut our industrial base and...

Let’s not be naive. What a way to start your post, but I suppose that is the new Canadian way. My thoughts: The USA doesn’t care whether we diversify. And, Business just wants us to be business minded. We aren’t and cash is leaving. Business in the USA is growing faster than anywhere (in real...

Interesting, the summary I read about his speech did not include anything about Canada. Was there any discussion at the conference?