Leo Mantha’s grave
This Tuesday I visited the grave site of Leo Anthony Mantha, the last person ever executed in British Columbia. He was born in Montreal on Dec. 22, 1926, executed in Burnaby on Apr. 28, 1959, and buri...
Tag: Burnaby
I asked the environment minister about his cat!
British Columbia Environment Minister Terry Lake stopped by Brentwood Town Centre this morning to announce the government’s decision to partially fund electrical vehicle charging stations across the p...
McDonald’s apple pies with ice cream!
I love apple pie and ice cream but sometimes I can’t be bothered to make the pie or buy it from the grocery store. That’s why I’m grateful for the McDonald’s near my house whe...
Foster Care and Adoption
Housemate enjoys crappy cereal
This afternoon Housemate decided to buy some puffed wheat. “It’s cheap and I like it,” he said. “Also, it costs less than Sugar Crisp.” I used to eat this crap as a kid and I really didn’t like it. I ...
Khan
A drug addict’s dream come true!
For those of you who don’t know my cat is diabetic. I have to supply him with diabetic cat food, blood-glucose tests, insulin and insulin needles. After I inject him with his insulin I deposit the ne...
Culture and Politics
Satanic beverages‽
In case you don’t know Housemate and I drink a LOT of beverages which is his euphuism for pop. It’s hard to say how much we drink – I try not to count. But whenever I start to run out of space to stor...
Culture and Politics
I saw my dinner plate on Hoarders!
This post is lovingly dedicated to my friend Yvonne in honour of her recent dish-shopping excursion. When I was watching Hoarders a few weeks ago I noticed something quite familiar: My dinner plate! I...
Khan
My cat is an extreme couponer!
Whenever I’m eating something like fish, chicken, ice cream, or a pastry I can be sure that Khan will plonk himself as close to me as he can get to let me know that he wants what I’m eatin...
Personal
Kim Jong Il and Nathaniel – separated at birth?
Well, I guess now is a good a time as any to pull this photo out of the archives. It was taken in about 1983. I think I look like Kim Jong Il… Housemate says I don’t. “Firstly, your ...
Burnaby
Surviving the Burnaby power outage
Housemate rudely woke me up at approximately 3:42 this morning. For shame! The volume and intensity of his outbursts led me to believe something terrible had transpired. I thought he’d been robbed, re...