Gordon Lightfoot…
… was pretty good considering his age and his rigourous tour schedule! His voice, while still unmistakably “Lightfoot”, has gone a little gratey on the high notes and the power…
June 2012
Iqaluit
Nanuq It’s not terribly warm in Iqaluit. The snow is gone from the City, and the roads are the customary summer dust, but the wind is still chill. Frobisher Bay…
This is NOT Democracy
The Opposition pushback over Bill C-38 — driven in part by the Green Party caucus of one, Elizabeth May — is about far more than political partisanship. It’s about whether…
Daniel Berrigan
A week ago, Chris Hedges wrote that he had encountered Daniel Berrigan, now 92, in New York City’s Zucotti Park — the place where the Occupy Wall Street protesters encamped…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
For Father’s Day, here is some gardening wisdom, in honour of my own father and my children’s father, both amazing gardeners who love to visit and revisit their garden “kingdoms”:…
Telegraph-Journal: New Brunswick Public Education Must Be Inclusive and Flexible
A New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal June 16, 2012 editorial, reprinted in its’ entirety below, has called for a flexible model of inclusion for New Brunswick public education. The editorial references education…
How tenuous a grip indeed #nlpoli
To some people the provincial Conservatives are in fine political shape. They are so firmly entrenched in power that they can afford to piss people off, to polarise the electorate.…
Canadian Climate Survey 3: Toronto Warms by 0.7 ˚C Since 1980s
With a couple of major headline posts out of the way, for a while now the main contributions of the Canadian Climate Survey will be the publication of pages tracking…
Calgary Company Claims Homeopathy Works on Mosquitoes
This uncritical promotional article in the Calgary Herald seems oddly representative of the decline of Canadian civilization: Mozi-Q is a natural mosquito repellent created by Calgary-based Xerion Dispensary. The product,…
Green from the Grassroots
Elinor Ostrom, Nobel-prize-winning economist of common pool resources, died of cancer this week, aged 78. Her final published article was green from the grassroots here are some excerpts: Decades of…
The Quebec Students and the Magic Moment
Like so many things in Quebec these days it was an amazing sight. Eighty thousand people in downtown Montreal watching an outdoor show by Loco Locass, a very popular and…
Japan Restarts Nuclear Reactors
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three…
An absolute crock
Twenty people connected to David Del Mastro, Dean’s cousin, or to his electrical business in Mississauga, are such political activists that they each gave Dean Del Mastro a thousand dollars…
Une artiste qui dérange
Harper government targeted artist for her green conscience, internal documents reveal, Vancouver Observer, June 12, 2012 “Franke James, a Canadian artist and environmental advocate blacklisted by the Harper government, has…
Bjorn and my new friend at North Van Walmart
All my life, I have been looking for this item.
Saturday night
Missed out on posting music on Friday, so this is to make up for that oversight. Plus it was a good day so I just feel like posting some music.…
Nature’s Environment Is Man
Facing an unprecedented environmental crisis a world summit like no other was called. “We have to do something, we can’t let our environment just die.” A member of the Dirt…
On the lighter side: Won’t somebody please think of the children (World Naked Bike Ride)
From Auntie Antonia of the Toronto Star: Nobody should have been taken aback on Saturday to see some 150 stripped loins wheeling past Exhibition Place. It was at Coronation Park,…
On the lighter side: Won’t somebody please think of the children (World Naked Bike Ride)
From Auntie Antonia of the Toronto Star: Nobody should have been taken aback on Saturday to see some 150 stripped loins wheeling past Exhibition Place. It was at Coronation Park,…