Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson tapped the brakes Thursday on the Vista coal mine expansion near Hinton with an announcement Ottawa will take a look at the environmental impact of…
OK, its been one of those weeks, so here’s some funny stuff: My son is wearing a MAGMA cap and a Vote Trump 2020 button. He’s been spat on, punched…
Hello out there in Blog Land! I realize I haven’t posted in a while, but for a change of pace I thought I’d let you know that I am participating…
When RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was asked if her force was systemically racist, she replied that she believed unconscious bias existed in the force but struggled with systemic racism. How…
Hello out there in Blog Land! I realize I haven’t posted in a while, but for a change of pace I thought I’d let you know that I am participating…
What is a pandemic? What is an epidemic? How do viruses, left unchecked, ravage societies? How did a slave in colonial Boston reveal the secret to thwart smallpox, vaccination? Why…
This blog may be shorter than unusual. My computer has been under treatment in the computer hospital. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Cheer up. You might die in nuclear war. But all those super…
August 1st is Emancipation Day. It is exactly 186 years since the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 received royal assent. While it is often thought that this was done during the…
I tried using my old HP Stream notebook computer today – which I bought two years ago, naively, because it was slim and compact and blue, and barely used it…
Synopsis: First rule: Question everything. Think for yourself. Satyagraha: Gandhi’s word for truth-force, meaning also: non-violent civil disobedience, as inspired by Thoreau’s short essay, which inspired Tolstoy, Gandhi, and later…
The far right and Covid-19 are best pals. Whether it’s Trump’s America or Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Mahdi’s India, BoJo’s Britain, even Kenney’s Alberta, Thug Rule does seem to encourage the pandemic’s…
Like acupuncture, which was pooh-pooh for decades as unscientific bunkum and hocus-pocus, but is now acknowledged by the mainstream conventional Western medical establishment to work – though our crude…
It’s not easy being “fair” to Donald Trump. I can’t think of another leader so needy, pathetic, dishonest and cruel as this guy. That’s not to say there haven’t been…
“While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled…
Yes, it’s bad enough that fully 10% of the election candidates for the Saskatchewan Party have impaired driving convictions – including the Premier, and one individual who was convicted based…
Has Donald Trump run out of steam? Has he lost his mojo? Is he in a Trump slump? What did he really mean when he said earlier this week that…
To date, most of the response to Scott Moe’s multi-billion-dollar irrigation scheme has focused on the immense cost for uncertain return, as well as the lack of consultation with people…
Renaissance & Rebirth, or Decline & Decay?
And the demonic take-over continues…. Or so it would seem. Evil rules the political realm, the economic, and increasingly, the cultural as well. An awakening of humanity continues to unfold.…