Goodbye Blogger
For decades I have used the google search engine and posted my thoughts in google blogger but in recent days everything on that platform seems to have gone tilt. Firstly…
Rural
Voices with no voice….
Glen Pearson writesin National Newswatch “The days of hope, while we still wish for them, seem somehow to be moving out of reach. We have numerous causes but no cause,…
A Life of Learning…….
After 75 years of life learning on this planet we call Earth the last 40 or so with a computer of one kind or another on my desk, almost 20…
Getting that shot!
My son in his 30s has just attempted to book a covid shot in an area clinic… without success! The Ontario system permits individuals to book up to two weeks…
Democracy Under Attack
“Let me be very clear … if you think this is something happening down in Georgia, you are misapprehending the moment that we’re living in,” “It is about whether we…
Pissed off Senior….
OK, so now after a good proportion of the U.S. rich and powerful are getting vaccinated we up here in Canaduh are finaly getting a small portion of the shots…
Senator Elaine McCoy ……
Senator McCoy wrote on her own personal blog called “Hullabaloos”. Scott Tribe of Progressve Blogger writes… ‘It was pretty cool the day I got an application from her in my…
A Scary Parallel….
“Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amusement, that people refused to take him seriously, and as one action after another met with amazing success, this amusement…
Political Polarization “damaging for democracy.”
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, fresh off her landslide reelection victory, warned on Sunday that rigid political polarization could be “damaging for democracy.” Ardern, asked what the takeaway for…
Something to think about…..
James Hamblin kicks off “Clean: The New Science of Skin” with a confession: He virtually stopped showering years ago. Hamblin, a physician and staff writer for The Atlantic, still sprinkles…
Assault on democracy?
A parliamentary e-petition sponsored by Conservative Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel Garner that calls for the federal government to scrap its firearms ban has been certified with more than…
Food for thought…
World wide population approaching 8 billion Total births this year 100 million plus Total world wide deaths this year aprox 40 million Increase in population this year aprox 60 million…
The affliction to the south..
I also don’t get some Americans..... “Why would ANYONE have voted for Donald Trump? It was like standing on a train track seeing the light coming towards you at full…
Food for thought….
The following food for thought was brought on by a BBC conversation with British scientist James Lovelock on his 101 year with us and who says says population growth means…
W T F…..
“ A labour union representing Ontario’s construction industry says its members won’t use the federal government’s new COVID-19 tracking app because it requires the use of smartphones, which are prohibited…
News release…..
Grey Bruce Medical Officer of Health, Doctor Ian Arra is giving notice of intent to Order the mandatory wearing of face coverings in enclosed public places. The Order will be…
Hiding History
“The good is oft interred with their bones.” So, let it be with Sir John A. Macdonald. How often must we decry the stupidity, the ignorance of those who want…
Democracy Decline…….
For some time now age and events have left me all but speechless compared with my weekly input focused upon democracy and posted at Progressive Bloggers for around 10 years…
Virtual Idiot?
Unless an agreement is reached before Monday, the House of Commons will resume business as usual with all 338 MPs along with their staff, clerks, interpreters, security and cleaners, returning…
Virtual Parliament?
The current situation has brought many questions to mind for us all with the majority connected with our governance in one form or another be it provincial heath departments or…