Love and Memory at the Lake
My husband Jim and I met and married ‘up at the lake’ as we call our summer place in the Quebec Laurentians. Jim’s parents met and married at the lake…
2012
Investing in the Green & White – Why Not in Green Power?
At yesterday’s Saskatchewan Roughrider game, Premier Wall announced provincial funding for a new stadium: an $80-million grant and a $100-million loan to be repaid over time through a surcharge on…
The Camino de Santiago
There's not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
The Camino de Santiago
There’s not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
The Camino de Santiago
There's not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
Harper Moves to Reinstate Fear & Helplessness For Terminally Ill Canadians
That sounds like hyperbole. It’s not. The Harper government is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of the terminally ill to physician-assisted suicide. Harper wants to restore…
Canadian Farmers Hard Hit by Climate Change
Farmers in far more than half of the United States are now busily filling out forms for emergency drought relief. This year’s corn crop is said to be particularly devastated,…
Pieces: A Newspaper’s Portrait of a Planet
Collect enough pieces of information and they eventually fit together into a meaningful pattern. But rarely do enough of them appear in one newspaper on one day to create an…
Bill C10: Vic Toews Met With Lobbyist for U.S. Prisons Profiteer GEO
During the heated public debates on the omnibus crime Bill C-10, Canadian progressives argued that the Harper Government’s controversial legislation was the beginning of the privatization of Canada’s prison system.…
Time to Give the Armed Forces a Reality Check
It’s time to hit the “reset” button on Canada’s military, or at least its top ranks. That much was plain from reading the jingoistic remarks of General Walt Natynczyk from…
In Our Allies’ Eyes, Canada Failed in Kandahar
For many years I have argued that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were betrayed by dismal political and military leadership in Ottawa and a mass media too inept to recognize the…
PEI – looking for big balls/ovaries
The door is indeed open for change, but PEI is without a politician with balls/ovaries big enough to cross the threshold. Today on CBC Sunday Edition there was a great…
More Prisons and More Double Bunking
The Conservative party again proves itself to be the party that enacts policy without proper research. New to this long list is Vic Toews statements about double bunking. With Billions…
On Pipeline Safety
Given Calgary’s recent designation as the “greatest city in Canada” and the entire province enjoying sainthood status under the current Prime Minister, it is with some trepidation that I draw…
Signs Of The Apocalypse Appear In T.O.
These have been appearing everywhere in my end of the city. I mean everywhere, not just on the Scarborough side of Vic Park. When my wife sees him she’ll shit…
The Liberal Party: A Substantial Heritage, a Future of Substance (Co-written with Theresa Lubowitz)
Theresa Lubowitz on the Death of Substantive Policy Canada is teetering dangerously close to the death of substantive policy as we know it, with the rise of a populist Conservative…
gone to deutschland.
TweetI will be spending the next few weeks traveling through Germany and the Czech Republic. Regular posts will resume upon my return in August.
Science and Religion: ‘God Particle’
An interesting debate about Higgs boson (God Particle) and religion. FILE – In this March 30, 2010 file photo a scientist looks at the pictures of the first collisions at…