Robert Clark has written a very good book about Canada’s prison system. Mr. Clark worked from 1980 until 2009 in seven different federal prisons, all located in Ontario. The book is a compilation of personal accounts based on the author’s various assignments. Since prisons can be a pipeline into homelessness,
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Earthgauge Radio: Interview with David Erb of Protect Our Winters Canada #POW
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/daviderb-pow.mp3 On the show this week, I spoke with David Erb, the Executive Director of Protect our Winters Canada. Dave has extensive management experience in the business and charitable sectors in Canada. He’s passionate about skiing, environmental stewardship and seeing POW Canada grow to have significant impact on climate
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Holocaust in Australia—We Are All Guilty
Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, has been referred to as a blockhead, which is fair, and not because his large head is rather squarish. He was warned by his Department of Home Affairs that Australia faced more frequent and severe heatwaves and bush fires due to global warming. Twice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A New Year in Canada – Beethoven’s 9th – 4th Movement
We did it folks. Another year over and many of us are still here. Thank you to my kind audience for the words of encouragement, the words keeping me honest, and the words correcting my errors so that I may continue to learn about his world of ours. I share
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jason Kenney and the UCP are Kryptonite to Alberta Workers.
When the economy is down, and the money is tight, and a recession looms in the near future what would be the best course of action for the government of Alberta? Apparently, firing 6000 people from their jobs is the correct answer according to Jason Kenny and his merry band
Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Time to Topple the Voting System
Modern democracy is under a lot of scrutiny this century as we’ve seen increased corruption by established political parties and a manipulation of bureaucratic processes to benefit the elite. The rise populism is a reaction to a perception that the electoral system isn’t reflecting the people, the system isn’t actually
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – The Bread & Roses Women’s Centre in Nelson Needs Your Help
A quick click at Canadahelps.org gets you to the donation page for a 15 dollar membership, follow the instructions so you can get a proxy and a vote to ensure that the Bread & Roses Women’s Centre remains a safe female only space. Holly will guide you through the rest
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: We Spend More Than Enough on Our Military
Once again the Americans are leaning on us to spend more on our military. The new U.S. national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, insists it is an “urgent priority” that American allies set their military budgets at two percent of their GDP. They spend 3.2 percent, we spend 1.3 percent, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Urban Problems – Being Lonely Together
I think it is uncontroversial to say that we are hardwired to be social animals. Yet, why do we design our cities and spaces to make interaction and social contact less affable and easy to access? “Urban loneliness is a virtual pandemic. Even though there have never been
Continue readingPostArctica: Hockey Should Not Be A Racist Sport
Apparently the idea of racism in hockey is now a hot topic in Canada. All I can say is what took everyone so long? Hockey is a white man’s sport. It is very expensive to have your kid properly equipped to play the game at any age. You do not
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Alberta—the Old South in the Cold North
Reading the book All God’s Children, I encountered a section about the relationship of the American South to the Union just prior to the Civil War. As I read on, I realized it was remarkably similar to the relationship of Alberta to our federation today. Prior to the Civil War,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta Government Fires Electoral Commissioner Investigating Government
You would think that our dear UCP government wouldn’t be so brazen in their attempt scuttle the investigation into their dark little web of political hackery. Apparently not. Their solution to being investigated by the Electoral commissioner is well… fire the electoral commissioner. *blinks* “The Office of the Election Commissioner
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: The Conscience Chronicles
UPDATE: As this was being readied for posting, the Standing Committee on Private Bills and Private Members’ Public Bills voted to recommend that Bill 207 not move forward in its current form, meaning that the bill will not be proceeding to the floor. I have elected to post this anyway,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Superb Meghan Murphy Interview on New Zealand’s News Hub Broadcast – Dismantles Gender Self-ID Arguments
Please go and watch the video that is attached to this article as Meghan Murphy eloquently expresses the concerns of Women about the transgender/gender self id movement. The rest of the article reprinted here with the exception of the hyperbolic response from the trans groups in NZ that who
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Totalitarian Left’s Bastardization of Intersectionality
Intersectionality is one of the positive additions that heralds from Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. Her concept of intersectionality is as follows – “The main argument of this black feminist paper is that the experience of being a black woman cannot be understood in terms of being black and of being
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Would It Help To Dump Alberta?
The G20’s Climate Transparency group issued its annual report this week grading all member countries on their climate performance and found them all wanting. The report said only about half the countries are on track to meet their targets for cutting emissions by 2030 and those targets are much too
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Religious Certainty of the Regressive Left
I’m fairly new on Twitter but have already had the displeasure of witnessing the fury of faux-progressive backlash against feminism and feminists attempting to speak their mind in public places… in Canada. Canada?? The easy going, live and let live notions we like to believe in the more sensible regions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Meghan Murphy Speech They Don’t Want You To Hear
This is the talk that the transactivists don’t want you hear. They protested, they shouted, they tried to intimidate the Library and women organizing the event. Share this widely folks, do not let the woke totalitarians win.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Behind Chile’s political crisis
More than one million people marched in Santiago on October 26 to protest the Government’s security response to Chile’s current political crisis and to demand structural economic reforms to reduce inequality and increase social services. In this post I analyze these grievances from a quantitative perspective and explore what it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy Speaks at the Toronto Public Library – Q&A
Click the link to see the Q&A. This is what transactivists are trying to shut down. Do you see the hate? I most certainly do not. #meghanmurphytalks https://t.co/NhnUcHHs2K — Peta (@peta_jolene) October 29, 2019 Contact your MP, get bill C-16 revoked.
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