Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation Cree person. In April he wrote this column, Shape Up Or Ship O…
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350 or bust: A Requiem For Planet Earth – And Ourselves
I am getting away from it all, canoeing for a week in beautiful Woodland Caribou Park. In the meantime, enjoy this: From young film maker Vivek Chauhan and naturalists working with the Sanctuary Asia network comes this non-commercial attempt to highlig…
Continue reading350 or bust: A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares) it offers over 1,600 kilometres …
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
O Lord My God When I In Awesome Wonder performed at the Winner’s Concert of the 2008 International Praise Festival:
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Continue reading350 or bust: It’s Heating Up Out There
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a whole lot has been going on the global warming front, and not just the extr…
Continue reading350 or bust: Is The Kremlin Now In Charge? Harper Government Silencing Canadian Artists And Scientists
The Harper Government is sending out a clear message at home and abroad that if your politics are not correct your art shouldn’t be shown, and if your findings are inconvenient your science doesn’t matter. A recent Vancouver Sun discussed t…
Continue readingFern Hill Unleashes More Online Hellfire
Way to go, Fern! As you might remember, Fern Hill, the political blogger at DAMMIT JANET! was the instigator of what Chris Selley dubbed the “online hellfire” which was unleashed on Tim Hudak last week following Fern’s post on his que…
Continue reading350 or bust: Response to Norway Horror: Faced With Inhumanity, We Must Be More Human
The contrast between Norway’s response to the brutal terror attacks last Friday and that of the United States after 9/11 couldn’t be starker. Imagine if President Bush had instead said, like Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg,…
Continue reading“Online Hellfire” Unleashed on Hudak
Thankfully, online reactions to Hudak’s 1995 comments on the topic of abortion have been swift. And, apparently, according to Chris Selley over at the National Post, merciless: And there is a subset of Canadians that unleashes online hellfire aga…
Continue readingTim Hudak Would Seek to Defund Abortion Services in Ontario
Currently, women in Ontario who are in need of undergoing an abortion procedure have the “luxury” of having the services covered under Ontario Health Insurance (OHIP). As suggested in the press over the last week, this might not be the ca…
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
This is a time to hold Norway and Norwegians, especially the victims of the horrific bombing and shooting rampage, in our thoughts and prayers. Extremism of any kind is a blight on civilization.
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change – Lite
Some Saturday fun – a cat caught barking until she notices the human:
Continue reading350 or bust: Nobel Laureate: It is the People Who Must Stand Up For the Environment, Make Their Leaders Change
Fridays are the days I usually focus on good news. I think the best news around these days is that Rupert Murdoch and his right-wing, democracy-corrupting News International is finally being subjected to the harsh light of public and criminal investiga…
Continue reading350 or bust: Murdoch-gate meets “Climate-gate”
What we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp scandal may just be the tip of the iceberg. Keith Olbermann wrote yesterday on his blog about the connection between Murdoch’s News Corp and the stolen “climate-gate” emails: The …
Continue reading350 or bust: Big Oil-Funded Meeting of Canadian Energy Ministers Ends: Did They Get What They Paid For?
From CBC.ca: Canada’s energy ministers ended two days of annual talks Tuesday in the Kananaskis resort in the Alberta Rockies announcing they have agreed to work together on opening up new markets to Canadian crude oil. They also agreed to work o…
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada, A PetroState? The Face Of Climate Corruption in Canada
From The Mark News: Energy ministers from across Canada have just returned from an all-expenses-paid tour of the tar sands, given to them by the oil companies themselves. Now, they are sitting down to debate the future of energy policy in Canada at a m…
Continue reading350 or bust: Eating Local, Eating Well: Meals From A Northern Garden
We woke up this morning to a hazy world, like many of the other communities in northwestern Ontario. Our corner of the province has 100 forest fires burning, and two First Nation communities north of us, Keewaywin and Sandy Lake, are being evacuated to…
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Continue reading350 or bust: Go Big Or Go Small: Mapping A Sustainable Future For Ontario
Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCCO) is committed to caring for creation. As part of that commitment, they have produced a youtube video that they’ve entered in the Watts Next contest, which is inviting video submissions from across the p…
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