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Peter D. Hambly 🇨🇦
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Retired: Commercial banker (Meridian CU, Bank of Montreal), Certified Financial Planner, 5-term councillor for Town of Hanover, On

Husband/dad; University of Western Ontario alumnus; Gold Life Master of ACBL (bridge); bibliophile; atheist; Ricardian; 🇨🇦
Agreed.

Who really benefits from proposed RRIF changes? Wealthy couples and the financial industry.

www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
Who really benefits from proposed RRIF changes? Wealthy couples and the financial industry
The push for further reform comes largely from those with the most to gain
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The Bloc is right. Laws & religion don't mix.

Bloc wants Liberal bill amended to remove religious exemption from hate speech laws.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bloc wants Liberal bill amended to remove religious exemption from hate speech laws: source | CBC News
The Bloc Québécois is planning to introduce an amendment to a Liberal government bill that would remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws, a source has told CBC News.
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Trump's peace plan
Putin and Zelensky
by @deAdder
open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Trump's peace plan
Putin and Zelensky
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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A Voice for Richard, Part II! This Saturday 29 November 2-5 pm, in person at the King Richard Visitors Centre or via Live Stream. Tickets available at kriii.com/what-s-on/20... Speakers include @mattlewishistory.bsky.social, Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, Caroline Wilkinson & others.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The Globe and Mail
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
OTD 1859: English naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which suggests humans evolved from apes, is published amid great controversy

Well done Charles. The abuse he took was terrible however he was correct.
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Isaac Newton
Contrary to all those click-baity headlines about how cosmology is "broken," scientists are mostly frustrated that it's *not* obviously broken.

When we can find the real cracks, we'll have a path to deeper understanding. 🧪🔭

noirlab.edu/public/news/...
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Going to be a long, unhappy year for the Leafs. 😒
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Town Crier Jennifer Olivero & Mayor Sue Paterson kick off the Lighting of the Square tonight at Heritage Square, Hanover
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
One for @astrokatie.com ?
For the HONORARY CANADIAN on your gift list
(only available in Canada... and yes that's how it's spelled in Canada)
peacelovecanada.ca
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Well, she's correct.
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Inflation cools to 2.2% in October as gas, grocery prices fall nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/17/i...

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Inflation cools to 2.2% in October as gas, grocery prices fall
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Confirming that Trump knows that American consumers are paying for his tariffs.

Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and other foods as affordability concerns grow.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and other foods as affordability concerns grow
Exemptions mark a sharp reversal for U.S. President, who has claimed his import duties do not fuel inflation
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“His hair is impeccable. He’s a hard worker. He loves his family.”

- Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a newly posted Toronto Life magazine interview, responds to a question on three things he admires about federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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September 2025
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My dad, Flying Officer Kenneth P. Hambly. Served in WWII. Lived a good life.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?... #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We are not rational creatures.
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM