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Sue Gray’s report into the Downing Street parties has finally been published – and Twitter exploded. The senior civil servant was tasked by Boris Johnson to look into the alleged social gatherings said to have taken place in No.10 throughout lockdown. Her full report was expected to be the tipping point for many Torybackbenchers considering whether to oust the prime minister – but last week, the Metropolitan Police announced they were now investigating the parties too. This meant Gray could only make “minimal reference” to the gatherings where there may be evidence of a Covid rule breach. The 12-page report released to...

This piece was originally published by Undark.On the outskirts of the Northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth. These are the remains of Grass Valley’s Idaho-Maryland Mine, a relic from the town’s gold-mining past. Numerous mines like this one once fueled Grass Valley’s economy, and today Gold Rush artifacts are part of the town’s character: A stamp mill, once used to break up gold-bearing rock, now guards an intersection on Main Street, and old ore carts and other rusty...

Happy tenth-anniversary Canadian Budget Binder! 10 Years of blogging still blows my mind. P.S There’s a contest below. In January 2012, I decided to start blogging about frugal living and finance. At the time, I knew nothing about blogging, nor did I know how to make money blogging. I was just a guy who really wanted to become debt-free and thought documenting the journey would be motivational. When I started the blog, we still had a $265,000 mortgage that we wanted to get rid of as fast and van payments of near $500 a month. You can read about how...

I’ve had my Anniversaries of the Heart back from the framer for quite a while now.  I planned on telling you all about it sooner but then I decided I wanted to get everything hung before I shared about it. Before I tell you about it, I want you to know that by the time I went to pick this up, there was a stack of gift certificates for me at The Stitchery Nook.  Several of you had called or stopped in and left gift certificates there for me to use towards my framing of this.  It had me all...

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