climate change
Enbridge: What Now? We Escalate Our Fight
Some breaking news occurred yesterday, the Joint Review Panel of the National Energy Board approved the Enbridge pipeline, but with 209 conditions. To quote a teenager from 1994: “Big whoop.”…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Lenihan is the latest to highlight the difference between citizens and consumers – as well as why we should want to act…
Fried Squirrels
It’s a crisp, foggy November Saturday morning in the south side of the city. Seventeen people sit in the large open area at the back end of an organic fair…
The new Canadian Plague: Have We all been Infected?
Sadly, Rob Ford epitomises what Canada has become With his crack smoking and drunken misbehaviour, Toronto’s mayor personifies our crude, swaggering, bungling New Canada Robert Hays in the Guardian Fri…
For Our Children: Stand Up, Speak Out
It`s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Marianne Williamson, an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author, spoke at TEDx Traverse City earlier this year. I love that…
First Nations Get $0.3M for Solar Research #skpoli
The Conservative government generously gave First Nations in Saskatchewan enough grant money to build one impressively sized solar array that could power a half dozen homes. Ontario is going with…
Dr James Hansen: Assessing Dangerous Climate Change
“If we go another decade or two just charging ahead business as usual, then we leave people a possibly unsolvable problem.” -James Hansen * Retired NASA scientist Dr James…
300 Years Is Bogus
Thanks to another letter writer, Michael McKinlay, I caught this opportunity to again offer a better future perspective than SaskPower’s current President has done thus far. http://saskboy.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/an-irrational-mixup-at-saskpower/ I’m writing in…
Saturday At The Movies
Enjoy these sheep dogs sneaking up on each other. LOL.
Canada-Australia climate axis—greatest threat to global security?
Prime Minister Harper once announced that the greatest threat to global security was terrorism. That was nonsense of course—every year, malaria kills approximately 660,000 people, mostly children, and AIDS 1,700,000…
Saturday At The Movies
I know tomorrow is the first Sunday of Advent in the Christian calendar (as well as the first day of December), but I can’t resist posting this today. I confess…
Made in Canada Scam Plan #cdnpoli
Conservatives are stalling, as they have been for nearly 8 years on both Senate reform and climate change action. .@mikedesouza Only 7 years ago the Made In Canada plan for…
Atlantic Canada faces climate consequences for our energy choices
Hurricane Earl strikes Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, in 2010. (Andrew Vaughan/CP) David Suzuki Foundation supporters who live in Western Canada often have eyes riveted on Ottawa to see what the…