Crow’s Head
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July 2021
On the Spot Water Cleaning Better Than Current Approach
Access to clean water is essentially for good health, yet many around the world lack access to save, clean, drinkable water. Researchers have found a way to clean water more…
The Conservative Temperament
Erin O’Toole does not inspire confidence. Many will blame him for his party’s current woes. But those woes, Andrew Coyne writes, go way beyond O’Toole: The Conservatives’ woes did not…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale…
Found Being Black in Ottawa.
It must have been pandemic boredom. When our library opened up again last week, my wife brought home a number of books. One of them was Celina Caesar-Chavannes’ Can You…
MLA Pat Rehn, cast into utter darkness by Jason Kenney last January, welcomed back to jittery UCP Caucus
On the morning of Jan. 14, a day after an Edmonton researcher revealed Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn had spent almost all of April, May, June and July in…
Dammit, That’s Piling On. Blame the "Wobbling Moon."
Sea level rise is already causing problems such as coastal flooding, salination of freshwater reserves and erosion. It gets worse when storm surge and seasonal high tides are added to…
14: Do not believe your journalists.
As I write this, George W. Bush, U.S. president at the start of the Afghanistan war, wept on television that the women and children would now be killed by the…
North Cowichan stands to benefit from forest carbon credits as carbon tax increases
Originally published by http://sixmountains.ca The financial benefits of forest carbon credits will continue to grow as the carbon tax increases in the coming years, a UBC forest research…
Justin Trudeau And The Election Guessing Game
I have to give Justin Trudeau a lot of credit, because he sure knows how to campaign, even before he calls the next election. For not only is his new…
Doing Politics Differently, In the Worst Way
I love to write this blog, it’s something I enjoy and it’s something I’m so glad I was able to bring back into my life after a decade on the…
Can Avi Lewis inject new life into the New Democrats?
Documentary film producer and Leap Manifesto co-author Avi Lewis is seeking the federal NDP nomination in a riding in southern British Columbia. Lewis is pictured here at an NDP convention…
From Carbon Sink to Carbon Bomb
The world’s forests have traditionally been seen as an invaluable carbon sink. Those vast swathes of trees would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, exchanging it for oxygen. Together with…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marlene Habib writes about the continued efforts of grocery workers to ensure we have access to food and supplies in the face of…
Are Cwood’s Symbolic Gestures Mere Platitudes?
I understand symbolic gestures: they’re what we do when we cannot change a situation, but want to express our anger, passion, compassion, outrage, sadness, support, angst, or other emotions. From…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 14, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay:Britney Spears returns to court. Here’s what has happened in her conservatorship battle since the last hearing via CNN Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet07142021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Reflections on the good life – Simplify, simplify
What brings true happiness? A healthy lifestyle; a positive attitude, outlook and philosophy; a simple life close to nature; meaningful work; time spent in solitude and stillness, reconnecting with yourself;…
Shaking up the status quo in the NDP
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announces the 2019 election platform in Ottawa. Still image from YouTube/CBC. This article is part of a series in which CD editors asked NDPers, current and…
MacKinnon’s Call to Stop Shopping
J.B. MacKinnon co-wrote the 100-Mile Diet years ago, which was a good read. It didn’t have much effect on my eating because it was a bit too extreme for even…