What Albertans Can Learn From the Attack on the Capitol
Federal Judge Damon Keith said democracy dies in the dark, but as we’ve learned over the last four years, it can also die in broad daylight if it is abused…
January 2021
Art News-Cowichan Valley Arts Council
Jan.8, 2021 Start a new habit Unlike those other New Year’s resolutions that mean depriving yourself, promising to either make art or at least view it regularly can be quite…
Somenos Marsh Society Seek Cooperation With North Cowichan
Society wants North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment property returned to wetlands The post Somenos Marsh Society Seek Cooperation With North Cowichan first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Within the decade, Electrification Technology will quickly impact the Alberta Economy & Athabascan Oil Sands
If I were the Mayor of Calgary, an Alberta MLA who goes to Edmonton or a MP for a riding in Alberta, the thing that would terrify me the most…
Resisting education cuts in Alberta: Drawing on recent historical examples
Operation Solidarity rally at Empire Field in Vancouver, where over 40,000 citizens joined to protest the government of Bill Bennett, August 10, 1983. Photo by Dan Keeton/Simon Fraser University Pacific…
This, You Must Watch. Arnold Schwarzenegger Denounces Fascism in America.
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Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rebecca Solnit discusses the importance of accurately describing Donald Trump’s attempted coup, rather than euphemizing a violent attack against democracy. Enzo DiMatteo…
Be Careful Who You Associate With
Thanks to the salamander for alerting me to the following story. Randal Lane, the chief content officer and editor of Forbes has a warning for all companies: Be careful who…
The God Fetish, the God Phobia, and the Fetish of Words: Or, The Idolatry of Ideology
There are some who will read my writing and think – he’s a dangerous right-winger! But if they read more, they will realize that is obviously untrue. Others will decide…
What Were They Thinking?
In the midst of the COVID crisis, some of our political leaders have disgraced themselves. Robin Sears writes: In today’s crisis, some of our political leaders thought they should be…
Exit President Trump.
It has been America’s shame. The past four years of the American presidency has shown the world a failure of democracy in the strongest country in the world. When you…
Primary Influences
What are my primary influences? Among them: Buddhism, Taoism, the perennial philosophy, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Thoreau, along with the values of the Enlightenment: liberty, equality, solidarity –…
Where is Collingwood’s Pandemic Response?
I admit I am stumped. I have been looking online to find something that tells me what Collingwood council has done in response to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past…
Our Only Home by the Dalai Lama tops independent booksellers non-fiction bestseller list for first week of 2021
Well, we’ve had a few exciting days. Let’s just take a breath tonight and contemplate the top selling books sold by Alberta’s independent booksellers during the week ended Sunday, Jan.…
How close was that?
What an awful week. I’m still processing the horror of what happened, and what almost happened, in Washington. It seems pretty clear now that Trump and his grotesque family wanted…
Too Soon?
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Kathy Shaidle, RIP
She died today. So I can reveal this. On Nov 20, 2020, at 8:10 PM, Kathy Shaidle wrote: I’m dying of ovarian cancer and while I still have time, I…
The Definition Of A Warrior
Here is a good working definition of a warrior. Chogyam Trungpa, or the 13th Dalai Lama, can explain it better. I am just a student. (See, Shambhala: The Sacred Path…