Improving parks is not always about the money
by Natalie Brown | Oct 17, 2017 ParkPeople The benefits of spending time in parks are well-documented. And as anyone who has struggled for a square inch of grass to…
November 2017
This B.C. First Nation is Harnessing Small-Scale Hydro to Get off Diesel
The rain comes down in a dense mist as John Ebell shows off the construction site of the Nicknaqueet River Hydro project, high on a hillside above the Wannock River…
Africa Wants Trump Given the Boot
African states attending COP23, the UN climate summit in Bonn, want America’s delegation turfed out. From Deutshe Welle. The Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) represents a coalition of civil society…
It May Be Legal, Barely, But It’s Not Victimless. You Oughta Know.
Rich folks see themselves as victims. It’s just not fair that they should have to cough up a sizeable chunk of their hard-earned cash to the government. That’s why so…
More Guns = More Gun Deaths
You would think anyone could understand that the more prevalent the presence of guns, the more opportunity for gun play, the more gun deaths that will occur. You can be…
A Ship of State With Neither Rudder Nor Compass
Washington Post columnist, Michael Gerson, looks to America’s horizons and sees only intellectual and moral exhaustion. Our times are not normal — and it is a disservice to the country…
Nov. 7: How to get depressed.
Sorry to be late with this. Writing this blog can be profoundly depressing. And it rather hit me on Monday. I hope I’m over it.___________________________________________________________ Here is a story we’ve…
Guns for Jesus
New Rule – from now on, as in “henceforth,” those who wish to praise Jesus had better be packing heat. The Cheeto Benito has spoken. Responding to the latest massacre…
You Had to Know This Wasn’t Good
The industrial meat industry is rife with problems and they often start with how the animals are gathered, transported, held in feed lots for fattening before being slaughtered. Feed lots…
The intangible, impracticable, irrational National: ten reasons it fails
The missus was away. The dogs had been let out. I had a Man Cold. I’d finished the Holocaust Week panel at the ROM. So I collapsed on the couch…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Wanda Wyporska writes that increasing inequality is the main factor behind public distrust and discontent with our politics: Rising inequality is not…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 7, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
Behind The Curtain
Ah, Star letter writers rarely disappoint. Truth, rather than political spin, always improves my mood. Liberal Party fundraisers held family millions in offshore trust, Nov. 6 From Panama to Paradise,…
Let’s Outright Ban Cars in Large Cities
Vehicles have been used to kill a lot of people throughout 2017, sometimes it’s an act of terror and other times it’s drivers being startlingly incompetent. Either way, people who…
Andrew Scheer and the Millennials Who Will Destroy Him
Even though I despise Andrew Scheer with every bone in my body, I can't help feeling a little bit sorry for him. For every day he sets out to smear…
Trouble in Paradise
The Paradise Papers have hit the fan. Bernie Sanders understands what they are really telling us: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a statement to The Guardian, said that the papers…
The withering world of Premier Wynne.
Most successful politicians feed on their egos. It is what carries them through the tough times, the questionable times and eases their doubts and concerns. It also blinds then to…
An Open Letter to Greater Sudbury Council Regarding the Draft Integrated Site Plan for the Kingsway Entertainment District
The following is an open letter to Council and select municipal staff with regards to the Integrated Site Plan for some proposed elements of the so-called “Kingsway Entertainment District”. It…
So long, Denis; Hello Valérie … Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
PHOTOS: Just-defeated Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre (Photo: City of Montreal.) Below: Montreal Mayor-elect Valérie Plante, who defeated Mr. Coderre in the city’s civic election Sunday, and Saskatchewan Senator Denise Batters,…
Holocaust Education Week event, in pictures
"This is now. This is happening right now." @kinsellawarren #HEW2017 pic.twitter.com/dPQc2eL0SU — Holocaust Ed Centre (@Holocaust_Ed) November 7, 2017 Our panel discusses the difficult balance of free speech & confronting…