Can an old man learn to cook from a meal-kit? I gave it a try...

 AboutAnything  | Greg McCombPhoto by author: Greg McComb    About a year ago - maybe more - I ordered food from a meal kit service, Goodfood.  Not sure exactly how long ago, the last year has been a bit of a pandemic blur.    It was delivered to the front-door in a brown box with three large bags inside. Each bag had all the ingredients (meat, vegetables, spices etc.) for two meals, one for myself and the other for my skeptical wife of 35 years. Skeptical because she didn't believe I could learn to cook.     I feel a bit guilty when I dump the contents of these bags on the counter. While most people spend hours shopping in grocery stores and lugging bags of food home -- I get...

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Cases, cases and more cases...why do public health officials refer to Covid-cases so much? There are better indicators out there...

AboutAnything  | Greg McCombImage by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay   It's the lead on the morning news; the afternoon news; and the evening news.....it's everywhere all the time. Updates on the number of Covid cases by city, province or country. Lately, it's been the inevitable march towards a second wave of the pandemic, as cases spike. It's making everyone nervous; some hysterical.  The thing is, if you only hear about Covid-19 case counts; things do look a lot worse. That seems to be all that public health officials talk about, and what media reports on. Certainly, cases are spiking in some regions of Canada, and there are increased risks of infection. People need to remain vigilant and mask in public. However, there...

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Canada sees early signs of economic recovery after Covid-19 openings...get ready for long-haul to 'normal'

  AboutAnything  | Greg McComb    Up until a few weeks ago, Canada's Covid-19 pandemic was laser-focused on the medical side of things: daily counts of cases, hospitalizations and deaths Photo by Greg McComb  were presented at government press conferences by senior medical officers, who often took center-stage. Many gained minor celebrity status. Busily toiling behind-the-scenes were teams of economists, statisticians and financial analysts who - quite unnoticed - published report-after-report on the state of the economy. Their consensus view early on: not very good, in fact, pretty horrible.           Voluntarily shutting down an economy - especially a well-performing economy...

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