“D’you know,” he added, in a horrified voice, “he was telling me what to do? Next time I’ll have a quiet lie-down until the feeling goes away”

To think hard about how you spend your time and energy, and to ask yourself if what you do lines up with what you need.

sandimartin.ca/news/2026

I want you (and me...all of us, collectively) to develop the ability to look critically (and compassionately) at your life and community and identify what you need to be safe and satisfied.

"At the same time that Ottawa moved to relieve affluent property owners of poorly performing taxes, the budget provided new allocations to litigate pandemic benefit cases against low-income Canadians — cases that cost far more to pursue than the government could ever recover."

"The decision made sense. But what’s striking is how that same reasoning is rarely applied when the burden of complexity falls on people at the other end of the income scale."

"The Underused Housing Tax and luxury taxes were dropped because they complicated and yielded little return. Pandemic benefit cases meet the same description, only in reverse: they generate no return and inflict great harm.

In 2023, the top 1% of Canadian families controlled 24% of Canada's total net wealth.

The richest 5% controlled 40%.

The bottom 40% of Canadian households, combined, controlled 3.3% of net wealth in Canada. Many of those are in a net debt position.

A friend gave me his copy! I sometimes see Graeber at the used bookstore. If I find one I could get it and send it to you.

Thanks!

I'm incensed that this is such an entrenched problem that there's been at least three different versions of the same "breaking news" in the past decade alone.