Blaze Aid was a multi-bar fundraiser on Saturday for the victims of the fire at Somerset and Booth last month.

Thirty-one people were left homeless, but fortunately nobody died in this fire.

Here are a few pictures of the fire and its aftermath.

Do you remember the Thach family, most of whom died in a fire […]

The bankers

TD Canada Trust has made some pretty spectacular mistakes with my mortgage over the months. It’s my first-ever mortgage so it took me awhile to notice.

For starters, they took my first few mortgage payments out of someone else’s account. This worked well for me, but somebody, somewhere, must have complained.

Then they failed to […]

My old friend Smabulator sent me a link to a review of Canada, by Jeremy Clarkson, a UK columnist who usually writes about cars, but who recently vacationed in the Ottawa area. Here’s an excerpt:

“We’re told that no one in Canada is ever robbed, butchered, stabbed, murdered or blown up by a doctor. And I […]