Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ~ Walt Whitman
Christine
End of the World Curriculum: Armageddon Vs. Global Warming
With tongue firmly in cheek, here’s a recent clip from the satirical news site The Onion: If you’d like to watch more from The Onion on global warming, click…
Fossil Fools Are Counting On A Finite Supply of Dead Things To Last Forever
It’s a beautiful sunny Friday morning in northwestern Ontario, and I see out the window my daughter’s brightly coloured clothes drying on our clothesline. The fossil fools who steer the…
More of Those Classic “Abortion is Murder” Images
Once again, pro-life demonstrators display lack of common decency and decide to parade with a bunch of Genocide Awareness Project photographs, this time in Ottawa Valley: A group called Show…
Dear Prime Minister Harper: Please Stop Blacklisting Environmental Artists and Scientists
Blacklisted Canadian artist Franke James is becoming a mosquito in the ears of the Harper government. Several weeks ago, I wrote about the Harper government’s interference in the European tour…
The Theft Of Our Children’s Future Is A Crime
This week, the world lost a leader in sustainable business practise. Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface Carpets, passed away on August 8th. After reading Paul Hawkens’ The Ecology…
Civilization Isn’t That Civilized
Those of you who follow this blog will know that my family and I spent last week canoeing in the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in northern Ontario’s boreal forest. It…
Linda Gibbons Resurfaces in Front of the Morgentaler Clinic in Toronto
Just like she promised back in June, Linda Gibbons is continuing her crusade of harassment of women entering abortion clinics in Toronto. However, as she must have expected, her usual…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~Lois Whyse
Saving A Whale, Saving Ourselves
The oceans are starting to feel the impact of human’s polluting the planet in many different ways, including ocean acidification and the huge garbage patch in the Pacific. Here is…
Shape Up Or Ship Out: A Northern Perspective On Global Warming
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation…
A Requiem For Planet Earth – And Ourselves
I am getting away from it all, canoeing for a week in beautiful Woodland Caribou Park. In the meantime, enjoy this: From young film maker Vivek Chauhan and naturalists working…
A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares)…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
O Lord My God When I In Awesome Wonder performed at the Winner’s Concert of the 2008 International Praise Festival:
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It’s Heating Up Out There
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a…
Fern Hill Unleashes More Online Hellfire
Way to go, Fern! As you might remember, Fern Hill, the political blogger at DAMMIT JANET! was the instigator of what Chris Selley dubbed the “online hellfire” which was unleashed…
Response to Norway Horror: Faced With Inhumanity, We Must Be More Human
The contrast between Norway’s response to the brutal terror attacks last Friday and that of the United States after 9/11 couldn’t be starker. Imagine if President Bush had instead said,…
“Online Hellfire” Unleashed on Hudak
Thankfully, online reactions to Hudak’s 1995 comments on the topic of abortion have been swift. And, apparently, according to Chris Selley over at the National Post, merciless: And there is…