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Category: Rants – Why I Don’t Love

When something bugs me, I need to vent.

Doug Ford is not standing up for Canada – or even Ontario

Posted on 25 February, 2025 by dilovelyadmin

What has Doug Ford done for you lately? Polls predict that Ford and his Progressive Conservatives will win – again – on Thursday. Personally, I don’t know what makes Ontarians feel that he’s a good leader, because I haven’t seen evidence of any good works… but there must be many who have. I sometimes try…

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Truckers vs. Convoy-ers and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Posted on 10 February, 202212 February, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

It’s now been almost two weeks since the “Freedom Convoy” truckers and allies rolled into downtown Ottawa and started honking their horns, ostensibly to protest vaccine mandates. As Canadians know, many protesters left the area after that first weekend, but some are still there and still making noise. Well, not just noise, but according to…

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Back to School in Person!

Posted on 8 February, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Today was the first day back at in-person school since the winter holidays began in December. On the day last week when it was announced that we would head back this week, I remember that as the news sank in, my brain gradually released this huge invisible ball of stress and I started to feel…

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Useful Items That Do Their Jobs – Gratitude Day 24

Posted on 24 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

You know when you have an item called a “shoelace” or a “windshield wiper”, where its job is right there in the name, and it just has that one job to do… and it DOESN’T DO IT? It’s supposed to be useful, and then it isn’t. That is a pet peeve of mine. Then there…

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Here’s why Ontario teachers’ unions are still “fighting” Doug Ford

Posted on 1 September, 20203 September, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

If you’re hearing Doug Ford saying he loves teachers in one breath and bashing teachers’ unions in the next, here is something you should know. He is an actor, telling his audience a made-up story. He’s working hard to get the Ontario public to believe in – and condemn – the faction he’s chosen to…

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Dear Students on Social Media: How Do You Manage?

Posted on 26 February, 201813 March, 2019 by dilovelyadmin

Hello, young folk. If you are a student in high school or university, have a smartphone with one or more social media accounts, and are passing your courses, then let me say: my hat is off to you. If you are excelling, then I am fully impressed. Here’s why. I am kinda old. Specifically, I’m…

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Paragon of Calm needs a reboot. Already.

Posted on 14 January, 20187 December, 2018 by dilovelyadmin

In my last post, you may remember that I have made it my mission to be calm in the mornings with my kids. I’d like to tell you proudly that I made it through the week with exemplary calm! But I didn’t. Not quite. I think it comes down to a sleep problem – one…

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Bullies: How You Treat People = WHO YOU ARE

Posted on 3 March, 20174 March, 2017 by dilovelyadmin

For your reading pleasure today, we have a rant for and about BULLIES. Specifically, adult bullies who need to know better. I’m incensed after reading an article about disgusting trollery cropping up among Ontario doctors, targeting other doctors with whom they disagree on their internal politics. Click on over if you’d like to bear witness to some truly heinous…

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Sleep Apnea Test: The Best Sleep You’ll Never Have!

Posted on 31 July, 201614 September, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

I already know that I have sleep apnea, which is known as “a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep”. I know I have this, not just because my sleep doctor said so, and not just because several people related to me have it,…

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How Not To Be A Douchebag: “FHRITP” and Other Issues

Posted on 14 May, 20153 March, 2017 by dilovelyadmin

Ever have the feeling that, as a species, we’re moving backwards? That we’ve had some dark, shameful times in our collective history… and that this is one of them? That’s how I feel right now, thinking about the guys who yell obscenities at female (or sometimes male) reporters on live TV, under the mistaken – and…

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