Some Saturday Fun
Even climate hawks take a day off now and then, so that’s what I’m doing today.If you’re in need of some lightheartedness, too, check out this video of a cat…
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“Stop Harper” Protest by Parliamentary Page During Conservative Throne Speech
A Senate page managed to stand just meters away from the prime minister with a sign saying “Stop Harper” during the government’s throne speech in Ottawa today. Brigette Marcelle De…
Climate Scientist Heidi Cullen On The “C-Word”
Climate Quote of the Day: But even though we don’t have all the answers — and maybe never will — we do know enough to act. And that is really…
Linda Gibbons Out of Jail
Linda Gibbons, the second Canadian candidate for pro-life martyrdom (the other being Mary Wagner) and the self-styled “prisoner of conscience” (which tells me that her conscience is insane, being the…
Deadly Tornado In Massachusetts Pulls Water From River, And Other Friday Links
It’s a rainy Friday in northwestern Ontario as we head into a weekend which will include, for our family, watching the second hockey game of the Stanley Cup finals between…
No Comment: Stephanie Gray
“The uterus exists in my body, every month getting ready for someone else’s body. I can live without my uterus, the pre-born child cannot. And so in some sense there…
If Canada Were To Become A Theocracy…
Not surprisingly, abortion rights would be the first to go. According to one of my least favourite online reads, Life Site News, the Knights of Columbus (read: old white men)…
Gardening Upside Down
We live in a topsy-turvy world where far, far more money is spent on guns and making war than on educating children and feeding the starving, and where the richest…
How Our Food System Is Making Us Sick: Former Food Industry Analyst
Robyn O’Brian, author of “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It” shares her personal story and how it inspired her…
Global Groundwater Depletion Is Detected From Space
Climate Change Quote of the Day: “Look, water has been a resource that has been plentiful. But now we’ve got climate change, we’ve got population growth, we’ve got widespread groundwater…
Pro-Life Bill in the Fall? Abortion Rights Under Harper
I should have posted this two weeks ago, in the aftermath of the National March for Life. Julie van Dusen, a CBC reporter, interviewed (I think) the director of the…
To Stop Abortion, Kill Sluts: Facebook Groups
It has become commonplace for pro-life web sites and blogs to insert a disclaimer of sorts which states that pro-life activists don’t condone violence, as though they attempt to distance…
No Comment: Aborted Soulmate
“I know I’m gonna catch a lot of flax for this but I truly believe that people who search their whole lives for their spouse and end up single in…
Mary Wagner Let Off the Hook
The charges against Mary Wagner, the Canadian candidate for pro-life martyrdom, have been dropped: Wagner recently stood trial on charges of trespassing and mischief. But after noting irregularities between Mary’s…