Larry Pynn While tourists enjoyed a world-class wildlife spectacle this month — Steller and California sea lions hauled out on the Cowichan Bay waterfront — Cowichan Tribes engaged in a…
What I hope is at least a slightly more flattering photo than the one Keean Bexte used in his story about me back in January, though to be fair I…
Today I find myself thinking about a story in Genesis 47:13 – 26. It is the story of a famine in Egypt. I’ll share the text from the Bible, and…
A man waves a Palestinian flag during a protest in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. Photo from Pixabay. Last week, Canada stood with the majority and voted in favour of…
Saskatchewan has COVID-19 getting out of hand. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/canada-prairies-coronavirus-alberta-saskatchewan-manitoba In light of the shocking, disturbing behavior of a former politically-appointed chair of Sask health region, compounded by fact it's being directed…
Episode 69! Part one of our discussion on The Great Reset. Podcast:
Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers and farmers and their allies across India participated in a pan-India strike action against the recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by the…
An Antidote to COVID Boredom: Virtual Book Clubs As winter settles in on the North Island, and we continue social distancing to lessen the risks of contracting COVID-19, life can…
Homeschooling? Your Library Can Help One of the many ways COVID has changed our lives is an increased interest in homeschooling. Of course no parents want their children to be…
New E-Resources – and New Holl different areas – language learning, music, crafts, local history and culture, auto repair – and so much more. And like everything in your library,…
Catching up on my “At Your Library” column in one of our free local newspapers. September Is Literacy Month When you hear the word “literacy”, you might think of reading…
Just read the interview with him in the New York Times Magazine. He’s just brilliant. Full interview here. Snippet here: Do you think music is fundamentally good? That’s a good…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic…
“Give me liberty or give me death!” That line was Patrick Henry’s claim to fame. If you live in Jason Kenney’s Alberta, those seem to be your two options. Don…
It seems to me that the ecological crisis is at a critical stage, as is the war on democracy, with the billionaires and corporations having taken over the planet, and…
Before people started accepting news in free form as whatever was trending on social media, we were encouraging business and government to work together. We called it by various names…
Before people started accepting news in free form as whatever was trending on social media, we were encouraging business and government to work together. We called it by various names…
For a delightful change of pace, here’s some of the best dog videos now on the web: Crazy agility by Pink the border collie.. Come for the speed – stay…
