Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – James Bradley writes about the range of responses to an increasingly threatening climate. And Emma Morris offers some suggestions as to how to…
2020
The grief of greed.
Many people share the blame for the shooting down of Ukraine International Airline Flight 752 over Iran. It is not the first time a civilian airliner has been brought down…
What Cities can do Right Now to be More Sustainable
People can make changes in their everyday lives to help the environment, like reusing items or simply by buying fewer things. If a bunch of people make positive changes together…
What a Waste
What a waste – companies being paid by the public may not be doing what they set out to do. This points to a bigger issue that we have to…
John Crosbie #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Left to Right: Bill Doody, Brian Peckford, John Crosbie, Jane Crosbie,and Beth Crosbie at the 1983 federal PC leadership convention The outpouring of praise in memory of John Crosbie, who…
Residents sleeping outside urged to visit Powell Street Getaway or extreme weather response shelters
January 9 2020 As temperatures drop this week, Powell Street Getaway – next to Oppenheimer Park – continues to open as a warming centre to ensure people have an option…
What Did I Miss?
Ms Soapbox just returned from a week in British Columbia. As you might expect, the residents of BC are more interested in their own issues than what ails the richest…
Well, This Is Certainly Interesting
OMG. This should be the end of Biden's candidacy. https://t.co/Y2N8bn0O6t — Linda McQuaig (@LindaMcQuaig) January 13, 2020 Recommend this Post
Four Days on a Train for Climate Change
Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. Surely I can ride the rails across Canada. Originally published by the Tyee By Emily Kelsall TheTyee.ca Emily Kelsall is a writer and…
National Observer – CO2 from jet fuel is soaring 4 times faster: what can save the day?
CO2 from jet fuel is soaring 4 times faster: what can save the day? Originally published by the National Observer By Barry Saxifrage The global aviation industry has started burning…
Why Do We Choose Fools to Lead Us?
Let’s face it, most of us aren’t all that bright. Or all that wise. Today we live in a quite remarkable hi-tech society. We can communicate instantaneously with someone on…
The Tehran Tragedy and the Strength of Justin Trudeau
The 176 bodies have apparently been retrieved, including those of 57 Canadians whose lives were so brutally ended as they were on their way home. The Iranian military has admitted…
Good morning, Southwestern Ontario!
Everything is fine. Nothing to see here. Please move along. pic.twitter.com/lGLcjaUFfl — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 12, 2020
Eating off the Hill: Jeff’s cast iron pizza
When I bought a cast iron pan, I had visions of searing steaks in the winter months. But I had no idea I’d be making pizza so often. In fact,…
We Need Embassies In Difficult Countries
One of the complicating factors surrounding the deaths of 57 Canadians in Iran is that we have no embassy there. Martin Regg Cohn writes: We closed our embassy in Tehran…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine and create something better. And…
End the Madness…
Greta Thunberg tells world leaders to end fossil fuel ‘madness’, sadly few of the institutions or world leaders are listening and even fewer acting to change things. We demand that…