When I was 9, my dad went to an auction with his uncle¹ and bought, seemingly on a whim 🦋, an antique piano. I would like to reflect on how this has changed the course of, if not the world, at least my life and many people around me.

We are making an attempt to make some simple substitutions in what we buy in an effort to buy more Canadian goods and services. It can be difficult to unAmericanize a household though; there are a lot of American services that are deeply entrenched in our culture. Here's an overview of what we're trying to change.

I previously wrote my Top 10 Movie and have followed it up with Top 10 Shows. Again, these are not the shows that I think are necessarily "the best" because there are TV shows that are made with more craft than the ones I have selected. These are the ones that are my favourites, though, for whatever reason. Like movies, I'm not putting these in any particular order.