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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“ 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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
The current average world wide population increase is estimated at 81 million people per year, without COVID-19, we would expect 60 million global deaths in 2020, with a third or…
The following short clip from a piece by Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks highlights how our perspective will change over…
With all of us asked to stay at home unless we absolutly HAVE to go out into the larger community internet access has become even more of a nessity rather…
The common flu causes up to 5 million cases of severe illness worldwide and kills up to 650,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization By comparison thus…
Pollister Nick Nanos opines in the G&M that perhaps Canada is a ‘joyless democracy’ and points to the fundamental disconnect between the economic numbers hurled at Canadians and the anxiety…
A recent post by fellow blogger Lorne stuck a cord with me and despite my reluctance to comment about ANYTHING in these days of total political mayhem both near and…
As my ever decreasing small cadre of regular readers will know I no longer write here on a regular basis having become so disillusioned with world wide ‘democracy’ that I…
Greta Thunberg tells world leaders to end fossil fuel ‘madness’, sadly few of the institutions or world leaders are listening and even fewer acting to change things. We demand that…
