And Now For The Rest Of The Story

 Or at least part of it.

Food bank use is at an all time high.  Over 2,000,000 visits in Canada for March 2024 alone.

But this chart, showing use by province, is just about useless.

Gee, Ontario & Quebec have the highest number of visits.  

And the territories and little PEI have the lowest.

A more useful view world be of feed bank use per capita.

Which is what the crack Arnotti Thoughts research team came up with.

Now everybody is pretty much in line with everyone else, except Quebec.

What's going on there? 

Interestingly enough, the food bank organization gave out scorecards to the provinces and territories.

Nobody came out looking good, except Quebec, with a C+ rating.

Highest food bank use in Canada - by a long way - and they get the highest mark?

Intuitively I would have thought those small, fairly poor Atlantic provinces would be heavily dependent on food banks.  But no.

Same gut feel for our three northern territories, but again no. 

Maybe they don't have a lot of food banks.

So is it as case of "if you build it. they will come"?

So the wealthier provinces have the resources to fund food banks so they have the highest usage?

Stay tuned.....

[This was intended to be about how useless that first chart is.]

Except His 'Stache is Better Than Matthews

 

You be the judge.....

And it certainly ain't no porn star 'stache.

Although some people think it could be.....

[FYI, dude on the right is actual porn star Ron Jeremy.]

A For Ingenuity

 

Now that's a Florida Man!

Or is that I For Ingenuity?

Sounds Like A Job For Florida Man!

 

But non!

This was a good old Canadian boy.  A French Canadian boy. 

Top that, Florida Man.

Jimmy Buffett

Zac Brown Band's tribute to Jimmy Buffett.

Minus the Zac Brown Band....

Thanks for all the memories Jimmy....

Gosh Darn It, They're Good!

 

I would never have thought to link gangs and crime!

This is why they are one of the premier, and most respected, policing forces in the world.

Pretty Good Two-Fr

 

In this morning's paper.....

And in the same paper right below it....

Looks Can Be Deceiving

 

So for this charity Thanksgiving dinner event, at first glance I thought these were three down on their luck fellows about to enjoy a free meal.  Checking out what was being offered.

But reading the caption, no, these are three Toronto Maple Leaf players (all millionaires) dishing out the grub to actual down on their luck fellows. 

Boy, I probably would have walked on the other side of the street if I saw these guys coming towards me. 

Or at least be ready to pat my pockets and say, I got nothing....

Who Wouldn't Want These?

 

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Ouchie!

 

....thanks, Pat.....

Missed It By That Much

 

"Diamond Jim"

 

So today would have been the 105th birthday of my dad, James Alvin Arnott.

Or Diamond Jim as he liked to call himself. 

Here is a portrait of him painted by a pal in 1939. 

He was 19. And looking good. The world and his whole life waiting in front of him. 

He didn't even know he would have an amazing son several years later!  A son who was so fortunate to have him as his father.

He also called himself Ace Arnott of the Wetaskiwin Wildcats.

I thought he made that team name up until I was driving from Calgary to Edmonton and passed the town of Wetaskiwin. Holy cow, it really exists.

Now whether he was really the ace of that team....

Years later, after the war - where he flew convoy escort over the Mediterranean for the RAF - he gave himself another name - Tiger Jim. His pilot's helmet of course had tiger stripes.

So Dad, you were gone far too soon, but happy 105th.