Mar 31, 2021
A “circuit breaker,” she called it. In B.C. we’re back to harsher restrictions for the next three weeks: restaurants and bars re-closed for inside dining, gyms and fitness centre group activities nixed, bubble definitions/limitations reinforced, re-opening of indoor...
Mar 24, 2021
The photos coming out of New South Wales (Australia) last night were startling. Cars and houses being swept down the river following days of rain that was still predicted to last for several more. The same area that was hit by the massive wildfires a year ago. It’s...
Mar 18, 2021
One year later . . . Some anniversaries are worth celebrating. Some, well . . . not so much! Who’d have imagined a year ago, that we’d be marking (can’t say “celebrating”) a year’s anniversary of pandemic lock-down, and still living with nearly the same restrictions!...
Mar 11, 2021
In earlier posts in this series on How the banks look at you for a mortgage, we looked at what your credit score and report needs to show in order to convince the banks of your responsibility in handling debt. We looked at how much of a mortgage payment you can...
Mar 4, 2021
It was a heart-rending story, shared on one of our national TV networks yesterday. The son was sharing how his father had succumbed to Covid. No, the disease had not, itself, taken him out. The 88-year-old man was in great shape and socially very active, playing...