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The demographic time bomb is about to detonate
Attention must be paid: there are now more old people than young.
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From the Archives: Study confirms that boomers are clueless
Before you get mad at me, look at the results of this survey about how they say they want to live out their years.
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150 years ago, Canada built a railway to stop American expansion north.
In these troubled times, we should dream and think big again.
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Why I am thinking about giving up teaching
If nobody shows up and nobody cares, why bother?
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How to build a world around sufficiency or "frugal abundance"
Part One of a series in response to the book Abundance.
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Fight Trump Tariffs with a Patriotic Canadian Diet
Stop buying American goods and services and try a local, seasonal, low carbon and all-Canadian diet.
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Another survey confirms that boomers are clueless
They apparently think that they can drive to their suburban single family house forever.
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I keep saying people want walkable communities, but apparently I am wrong
A Pew survey finds that only young lefties want to walk to restaurants and schools.
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Lessons from the past about how to deal with American tariffs
This would be a good time to buy Canadian, electrify everything, get off American gas and oil, and reduce our carbon emissions.
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How Donald Trump's giant faucet of Canadian water will get turned on
Americans have been eyeing Canadian water for years. They have a plan.
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CMHC releases plan books for the 21st century
We can build faster, cheaper, and better with predesigned plans for the Goldilocks density. A great legacy for Justin Trudeau.
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Writers: Stop it with the AI images already. You're next.
The time is again ripe for targeting the “machinery hurtful to commonality.”
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