Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Action is the antidote for despair.” ~ Joan Baez Monday, September 26, 2001: Ottawa Tar Sands Action There comes a time when you need to take a stand. When sending…
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Climate Denial Hits the Fan
Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality has been running online since 7:00 pm yesterday. If you haven’t had a chance to tune in yet, there’s still time to tune…
Kicking Addictions: Commentary on What It Takes and What Helps
Work on getting past addictions by setting effective, personally-valued goals, exercising discipline but tolerating lapses, accessing support, finding substitutions, distractions and adaptive strategies, and cultivating mindfulness and insight into emotions…
Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change
While I’m away on a canoe trip this week, I will be posting articles from the 350orbust archives. This was first published in June, 2010. Via “Nothing New Under The…
It’s Time To Enter a Twelve-Step Program For Our Oil Addiction
This was first posted on July 28, 2010. Unfortunately, it remains just as accurate a year later, despite the promise of the leaders at the 2009 Pittsburgh G8 to eliminate…
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…
Yours Truly, BP: The Legacy of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster
The NRDC’s recent report on water quality at vacation beaches highlights the continuing legacy of the BP Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 workers and spewed approximately 170 million gallons…
The End Of Cheap Oil: An Opportunity to Create A Better World
“As a species with the creativity, adaptability and opposable thumbs that enabled us to create an Oil Age in the first place, we can be pretty certain that there will…
Insite comes to Ottawa
The Harper Government TM is still attempting to shut down Insite, Canada’s only supervised injection site. The case is now before the Supreme Court of Canada, which is where I…
This is a gift…
So, my loyal readers, I'm sure that you've all been keeping up to date on the activities. Well, the police went overboard (like I predicted) and brutalized SO many people.…
Toronto!
So I just spent an AMAZING ten days in Toronto. We had a Drug User Groups summit and we officially created the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD).…
Harm Reduction Superheroes!
So last Thursday I did a panel speech and presented a workshop at YSB's forum. It was called Building Bridges and it focused on youth 'in transition' from youth to…
Busy bee!
So I was having a really crappy today and yesterday. I spiked my opiate tolerance by using a LOT of Dilaudids, and man did I ever come down sideways when…
Biking around town! Sorry folks.
Hey OFDSU devotees -I'm sorry that my posting has been so erratic lately. To be honest I haven't really had any good topics to write about and I d...
Naloxone programs
So I just found out that a good friend of mine died of an overdose while I was in jail last week. It came as quite a surprise to her…