Canada Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/canada/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:41:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 K-Cups: Love and Hate https://smthingscount.com/2020/09/19/k-cups-love-and-hate-2/ Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:39:27 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=9753 K-cup coffee pods are very easy, very convenient.  Which is why we buy 10 billion of them every year, enough to encircle our planet 10

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]]> Are Household Cleaners Making Your Kids Fat? https://smthingscount.com/2018/10/13/are-household-cleaners-making-your-kids-fat/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:45:24 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7387 Come on, you’re kidding, right? Not according to Canadian researchers who studied the effects of household cleaners on children as young as 3-4 months. Granted,

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]]> Stop the Deep Sea Mine https://smthingscount.com/2016/08/20/stop-the-deep-sea-mine/ Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:10:07 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=5119 Imagine a deep-ocean mine, right next to a very rich eco system, run by a failing company with no experience on this large a scale,

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]]> Great News for Monarch Lovers https://smthingscount.com/2016/03/09/great-news-for-monarch-lovers/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:17:35 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=4649 I’ve missed those gorgeous orange-, black-, and white-winged visitors to my yard.  There used to be many, but for years I’d be lucky to see

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]]> Fence out those Immigrants! https://smthingscount.com/2015/11/20/fence-out-those-immigrants/ https://smthingscount.com/2015/11/20/fence-out-those-immigrants/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:29:29 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=4316 I live in California, a state that has a large population of immigrants coming in illegally.  I should, I suppose, jump on the bandwagon of

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]]> https://smthingscount.com/2015/11/20/fence-out-those-immigrants/feed/ 4 Cooking Dinner for the Garbage Can https://smthingscount.com/2015/08/31/cooking-dinner-for-the-garbage-can/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:06:41 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=3936 Tonight, cook dinner and throw away 1/3 before you serve it to your family.  Sounds not only wasteful but downright stupid, doesn’t it?  However, that’s

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]]> Immigration Oddities https://smthingscount.com/2013/02/13/immigration-oddities/ Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:26:47 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=1247 Immigration is a hot topic right now.  People are determined to stop all those service-sapping Illegals from violating our Southern borders.  May I offer two

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