I don’t care much about clothes, shoes, bags. I don’t buy expensive cosmetics or skin-care products. As long as I have what I need, I’m good. It’s easy to watch…
OK, so it is hard to get good help these days. The problem is that the revolving door they put on the employee’s entrance at the White House is getting…
There’s smoke! Is there fire? On Friday, StarMetro’s Edmonton and Calgary editions reported that the Office of the Elections Commissioner has hired a retired Edmonton Police detective to dig into…
…But what to do? Where to start?_______________________________________________________________https:/www.thenation.com/article/overmatch-pentagon-military-budget-strategy/_______________________________________________________________ A pause for stray thoughts In the confusion over Trump’s pulling out of the war on ISIS, have you noticed the laguage of…
It’s funny how the threads of our lives intersect sometimes to create meaning, sometimes giving us a clearer view of what is before us, or what is missing. Our daughter…
Former President Barack Obama has blown the whistle on neoliberal capitalism and admits it fostered the rise of the far-right and fueled crippling levels of inequality.
B.C. voters opted for status quo by 61.3% this year After this week’s big defeat for proportional representation (PR) in the British Columbia referendum, change in Canada remains as elusive…
It wasn’t a terrible surprise to read the morning’s severe wind warning from Environment Canada. A look outside had stolen the government’s thunder. Yeah, it’s windy again just as it…
When world leaders periodically muster up enough courage to take on the issue of climate change, they do it with great timidity. They approach it in the context of political…
Serving as CEO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption was one of the great honours of my life, and I am immensely proud of all we achieved together…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jerry Dias writes that the holiday season will be a difficult one for far too many Canadian workers facing precarious employment and hostile…
For those who don’t want to be saddled with additional costs such as carbon taxes to battle climate change, may I humbly suggest that the price of doing nothing is…
First of all, here’s the link to our holiday season blog, which has become something of a tradition. Read it and know we’re all hoping for the best as we…
This is the first in what I expect will be a long series of posts about the financial follies and shenanigans of our council. Our council begins its term not…
And here we were worried that our friends out on the Left Coast were being had! They got a really nice pre-Christmas present the other day. They got rid of…
There’ll be no white Christmas for Vancouver Island. In fact, unless these high winds stop and allow the ferries to run normally again, for some it won’t be much of…
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This time of year is not my favorite season, yes its nice to visit family and catch up with both their recent activities and their plans for the future but…