Baby boy names in 2020: From Aabid to Zyron, with plenty of Jaxs
Back when I was a youngster – literally in another millennium! – most kids had names that were pretty solid and stolid. Everybody knew a John or a Jim or…
Back when I was a youngster – literally in another millennium! – most kids had names that were pretty solid and stolid. Everybody knew a John or a Jim or…
I have to be honest when Annamie Paul was first elected to be leader of the Green Party of Canada, I was intrigued. I was intrigued for a number of…
We are all tribal. We don’t have a choice. We are designed that way. Our architects—our genes—design us to be biased toward fellow members of our tribe as opposed to…
This site has been relatively quiet over the past week or so as I’m back home trying to take some slower time with my family while working at a distance.…
Young people in China are channeling the 60s and it worries their Communist overlords. They are rejecting consumerism, hard work and all that other middle class stuff. They are lying…
A recent Pew Research survey of religious attitudes in India revealed some interesting insights into a society tolerant of, yet divided by, religion. First, Indians are a very religious people.…
Here’s the scale of the problem: "Remediation of thousands of orphaned oil&gas wells and the eventual “clean-up” of the oilsands mines& tailings ponds -estimated by the Alberta Energy Regulator to…
On Wednesday I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Jason Lietaer for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the current state of the…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed this years Canada Day, how it felt…
Did you celebrate Canada Day on Thursday? If so, shame on you! If you read the daily newspapers (which nobody does anymore) or watch the TV news (which nobody should…
“We need to change the rules”—Greta Thunberg, 2019 In 1970, American biologist Arthur Galston coined the term “ecocide” to describe mass environmental destruction. Galston was a critic of the Vietnam…
E=MCsquared. Energy = mass x the speed of light squared. What does that mean? Among other things, it means this. Einstein showed matter and energy and interconvertible. In fact, both…
While confederate statues get bashed down in the south, Canada’s own architects of genocide and apartheid have also come to a crumbling demise. Statues of John A MacDonald and Egerton…
Ignoring climate change in the short term has benefits both to individuals and to organizations. Individuals do not have to make changes in the cars they drive, the products they…
(Excellent talk on philosophy, metaphysics and human happiness is linked below.) When we let go of attachment, aversion and ego, our energy naturally rises, increases and expands, and our happiness,…
751 lights. Another discovery made yesterday at St Eugene’s in Lower Kootenay. I’m sorry.
Reflection, remembrance and mourning are important. So too is restitution. And the best way to do that, is to respect indigenous rights, including land rights. Returning significant portions of land…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s comments on the…
A $28.5 million Catholic church is built while ‘there’s no money’ for a $25 million settlement for First Nations people in Saskatchewan. The time has come to take away what…
On Narcissism & Independence
The fourth of July….I realize only now, that is today’s date, as I finish writing this short reflection. How fitting. Independence Day. Now, let us talk about where real independence…