“What if the Gulf could sue BP?” asks Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. “What if the ocean around Japan could sue the owners of the nuclear facility? What if the Athabasca River could sue everybody? What if Lake Winnipeg could sue for the nitrates we dump into it everyday?” On International Mother Earth Day, […]
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Paul S. Graham: Video: Federal election forum on the Environment
April 20, 2011: Dennis Lewycky (NDP), Ilona Niemczyk (Liberal) and Jacqueline Romanow (Green) at a Federal Election Forum on the Environment at the First Universalist Unitarian Church in Winnipeg. Photo: Paul S. Graham If the state of our environment is a defining issue for you in this Canadian federal election, you must be disappointed at […]
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Canada’s 2011 Federal Election: ’tis better to have loved and lost . . .
With the annual retreat of snow and ice blessedly underway, the crap and crud that mysteriously didn’t make it into my back lane dumpster is revealed in all of its putrescence. I call this a mystery because I don’t know how apparently sentient, reasonably healthy, bipedally-capable adults with opposable thumbs could miss the dumpster’s gaping […]
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LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: RUN FOR RIGHTS BENEFIT: Coming up at the end of this month (April 29) a benefit concert for the Winnipeg Copwatch group and their annual ‘Run For Rights’. Here’s all the details: WWWWWWWWWW Run for Rights Benefit Concert Time Fr…
Continue readingRegan Wolfrom: Political Roundup – January 2011
I’m getting ever closer to accepting that I am not a politician by nature… part of that process is letting go of the self-censoring. If I want to say something that’s controversial, I should just say it. Life’s too short (at least it is now that I’m in my thirties) for continuous diplomacy. Rather than […]
Continue readingRegan Wolfrom: Why I’m Not Running for City Council
In the past five years since I returned to Winnipeg, I’ve been disappointed, dissatisfied, and oftentimes in complete disbelief of how governance is done in Winnipeg. I’ve seen community centres and historic buildings knocked down simply to create empty lots for cars and/or garbage. I’ve seen construction projects planned that seem to revel in increasing […]
Continue readingRegan Wolfrom: The Big Disraeli Plan: Four Years Late
“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” – 19th century British statesman and Winnipeg freeway namesake Benjamin Disraeli. A few bloggers (Graham the rabblerouser and the ever-mysterious Black Rod) have mentioned that some citizens, including myself, had brought plans forward regarding the Disraeli Bridges Project. My plan, based on conversations with literally […]
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