Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul…
May 2012
I Need A Million!
John Baird helped out the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch by helping them get 1 million dollars in federal money. The money that went to Chabad was out of a…
No Nature-Deficit Disorder For Conor In Fredericton,The Green City
Conor enjoying some time at the Saint John River All photos were taken within a short walking distance from our home in Fredericton, New Brunswick The Green City My younger…
Happy Mother’s Day
I came across this speech that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave after receiving an award form a New York Women’s group on Thursday and it seemed like a good…
Ethnic Cleansing, Divine Opposition to Student Strikes, and Other Media Myths
I have avoided weighing in on the Quebec student strike until now, mostly because I don’t live in that province and I didn’t really feel I had anything substantial to…
Media Bias Project: Columnist Profile of the National Post
Four weeks have now passed since one of my readers, “rory,” accused my Media Bias Project of being biased and promised to supply a list of newspaper columnists in this…
Dr Mulcair and the Dutch Disease
Ever since Thomas Mulcair warned that the Dutch Disease is killing this country, every shabby oil pimp and Con huckster in Canada has been lining up to denounce him. And…
Recognizing real radicals
Britt’s Patterns of national behavior and abuse of power #3: “Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause…” Bill C-38, Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, May 9, 2012 “…Over the past few…
Connecting With Voters
Part of it is policy. Part of it is leadership. Most of it is passion. I am of the belief that when voters aren’t simply voting against someone else, than…
Executive First Class
On the plane to Peru, cut off from my usually endless sources of news which perennially gives me causes to vent frustration at, I am reduced to unleashing my criticism…
Dear Chilean Students,
Thank you for expressing your support for the college and university students that are currently striking in Quebec. I am happy that you too have criticized the neoliberal policies of…
Masked protestors could be jailed under Tory MP bill
A new private member’s bill – Bill C-309 – will amend the Criminal Code of Canada to make it illegal for protestors to wear masks during “tumultuous demonstrations” also described…
I Am Thirsty Ministries co-founder, former administrator for Afshin Javid speaks out
To the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ around the world, In October of 2008, I, Brenda Klemke, co-founded the ministry of ‘I AM thirsty’ along with Afshin Javid. At…
Need we say more?
Link to The Michigan Messenger Be sure to read: Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast?
The London Whale: The Massive Gambles our Regulators and Banks are taking and why You will pay
We have all heard of the London Whale and his role in betting $100 billion (that’s $100,000,000,000)on derivatives and losing several billion for the proud and now humbled JPMorgan. And…
Chapter from Heller’s Catch-22 ?
A comment that speaks for itself from the article Kleptocracy – rule by thieves: “I installed a 10 kW wind turbine on my Okanagan property 3 years ago, buying into…
A Healthy Society – Chapter 9 Discussion
In his conclusion to A Healthy Society, Ryan Meili sums up his overall message about how health can serve as the central theme for political organization, and notes that the…