We’ve had our first blast of winter weather in southern Ontario. And of course thousands of ordinarily sane drivers lost their minds and got stuck in unplowed driveways, drove into snowbanks or spun out on every slight incline. It’s odd how, during the months when the roads are bare, you don’t pay the slightest heed to the contours of the terrain. But add a strong wind, a thin layer of black ice and several strata of the white stuff and it feels like you need one of those monster trucks to gt by. When I finally got myself organized to leave for work today, Mark, our snowplow guy was out on the front steps scraping off a knee-high dump of snow. I waited in…

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