Recent content by RandyMcDonald

Yesterday I came back from a short trip to PEI. My last trip two years ago I saw that many of the trees knocked over by Fiona were still leaning over, even in cities like Charlottetown. My impression was that, two years later, between natural decay and human repair, the downed trees have been...

I think it is reasonably clear that Celeste probably thought herself to be much older and more capable than was actually the case, and that no one in D4vd's entourage had an interest in contradicting her. Beyond that, Celeste possibly coming from a troubled background should not surprise...

I think that is actually the least bad possibility for D4vd, as I have said. If he had a prior relationship with her and she was found in his car, what less damning outcome might be possible? Note that "least bad" does not mean "good".

It should be noted that, even in jurisdictions where drug users are explicitly protected from prosecution if they take a fellow drug users to hospital if they overdose, they do not. They are afraid of what might follow. Tempe Jane Doe in 2002 comes to mind as one example...

Thank you for the corrective. We live in a world where people can deny COVID-19 exists right up to the point when they are being put on respirators where they die of COVID-19, so some fans taking things too far is plausible. I do think that this puts a cap on any crossover potential. It is not...

And right now, we do not know enough. For all we know, someone around him may have found Celeste after she overdosed or something and took it on themself to hide her body really badly.

One thing I have noticed is that Japanese pop culture is much bigger with younger generations than with older ones. I am middle-aged, I guess, 45; people in their 20s have grown up with Japanese anime and manga and pop music as huge influences in ways that would have been unthinkable. In my...

This coverup by a manager might be plausible if D4vd was a huge star, someone that the manager depended on. He was not that: Headlining a show at History is not nearly the same as headlining a show at the Rogers Stadium. I think a lot of the work involved with being a manager could be and most...

I should note that History is one of the Toronto's more notable live music venues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_venues_in_Toronto It has a much smaller capacity than the Rogers Centre (former Skydome) and Scotiabank Arena downtown in the Entertainment District, or the new Rogers...

I think that the biggest issue is that we have no idea what, exactly, justice in this case involves, or what needs to be sought from whomever. Certainly D4vd needs to be brought to some sort of account for what was almost certainly a deeply inappropriate and probably illegal relationship with...

Even a badly dysfunctional family can have accidents. If anything, dysfunction might make these more common.

One thing that has become increasingly clear us that lots of people are inclined to make much less intelligent decisions than we had assumed. A musician on a trajectory for mainstream fame also demonstrably got himself involved with someone unforgivably young. There is no reason why he, or...

Today is the three-year history of Hurricane Fiona, which hit both PEI and Nova Scotia very badly. If what remember of trees that did not have to be moved still lying all over the place in PEI's capital of Charlottetown is at all relevant, in deeply rural Nova Scotia the forests must be an...

The only thing I think we can conclude is that something really unlikely happened to Andrew. It might have been an instance of grooming leading to murder, it might have been a spontaneous suicide attempt, it might even have been a bizarre accident no one expected. What if he had decided to run...

I have actually visited the town of Chertsey on a couple of occasions. A bit less than a hundred kilometres north of Montréal and a bit more than an hour and a quarter away by car, Chertsey is a lovely town, three hundred metres high in the Laurentians and surrounded by forest...