Confronting Our Past: Gabor Mate Speaks
Like many blogs, mine is largely informed by the thoughts of others. To be sure, I try to make it my practice to shape and filter things through my own…
July 2021
Canadian Historian Explains The Key Facts About Residential Schools
This excellent Facebook post is well worth a read. Originally published on Facebook by Jessica O’Neill As a Canadian and a historian, I’m going to explain some of the key…
A Fitting Commentary for Canada Day
One thing that distinguishes Canada from so many other countries is our natural bounty. We have a lot of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable. Most of our achievements that we…
Canada: a Warning to the World
Happy Canada Day!!! On this, the day we celebrate our nation’s birthday, we have much to be proud of, things to regret, and the knowledge that our once staid homeland…
Edward Snowdon – Conspiracy Theories Are How We Conceal Conspiracies.
Edward Snowden writes that conspiracy theories are so widespread because sometimes the truth is just too much to bear. He says that conspiracy theories often mask conspiracy practices that are…
thoughts on not celebrating canada day #cancelcanadaday
If it wasn’t clear why we should not be celebrating Canada Day this year, by now it should be. Three days after the discovery of 215 skeletons of children were…
Canada Day 2021
This Canada Day is like no other I can remember. The graves of all those children — recently and soon to be discovered — make this a somber day. There…
Covid Journal, July 1, 2021
751 lights. Another discovery made yesterday at St Eugene’s in Lower Kootenay. I’m sorry.
Ontario Electricity VIII: Now also going backwards on climate
There have been a number of important developments in the Ontario electricity sector since my last update when I summarized my arguments in front of the Ontario Legislature against the…
Celebrating Canada.
In celebrating Canada today, the message is that we need to try harder. No country is perfect. We have made some false steps in the past. We will do better…
Lytton – Consumed by Fire
Sunday, a national record for the hottest-ever place in Canada. Monday another record, again the hottest place in Canada. Tuesday – three days, three records set for the hottest-ever place…
While Jason Kenney promises the best summer ever, it’s hard to shake the feeling of apocalyptic foreboding this Canada Day
ST. ALBERT, ALBERTA – It’s Canada Day. The pickup trucks with their maple leaf flags may or may not be screeching around Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue tonight, laying rubber in celebration…