Dan Smith is on a mission to save lives as he once again offers to match charitable donations to effective charities this time with a $175,000 ceiling.

There was a knock on the door.

Nobody knocks on my door unless they are (a) delivering something, or (b) wanting something. Either way, the beat signifies money flowing out of my account quicker than the water from the melting ice caps flowing out of the frozen wastes of our world.

I open the door, and there stands a young man from St.John’s Ambulance. I listen to him for 10-minutes, talking about the lack of first aiders in the country, and how we need more to save avoidable deaths. He also talks about their school program. And then he asks me for a donation.