Demos
Canadians get their own Donald Trump
Don't like that Ontario handed total power with minority support to a northern version of Trump? Fix Canada's toxic election system, and bring in democracy.
Demos
Bearing Witness: Indian Horse
Had someone tortured my child as the nuns and priests and bigots tortured the children depicted in the film, had bigots treated anyone in my circles as Saul was treated by many people, I'd have fought them all to the death. Had I known, I'd have acted. Which, of course, is the point of a movie like Indian Horse.
Goldilocks Zone
Canada heats up
Even as Canada’s Western provinces and federal government war over expansion of Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline, Canadian auditors general are working together on climate change. And, their first big pan-Canadian report today reveals the toothless Read more
Goldilocks Zone
Upgrade, stop degrading, our world
Quick! Someone, anyone, find us a new “just right” world in the Goldilocks zone, a planet not too hot, not too cold. And someone, anyone, build us a vast spaceship to get there – soon, Read more
Free Range
Hawking’s reach exceeded his grasp
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” Stephen Hawking dismissed the religious notion of “heaven,” yet brought Robert Browning’s thought to unexpected life. Hawking, the British cosmologist, theoretical Read more
Free Range
Dead kids? Nothing new. Move on
More American children gunned down in school? Nothing new to see here, folks. Move on – and change the script. Social and journalism media are stuck in reruns, worldwide, of the same stupid American snuff Read more
Goldilocks Zone
Fear climate – of indifference
Climate change is not top of mind nor leading this week’s news. It is what will matter long after the stench of current sleaze has lifted, or next-cycle corporate and political shenanigans are forgotten. Recent Read more
Free Range
A celebration of a life
A friend’s life was celebrated today, a full life that ended far too soon. Her people, so many of us, filled the graceful Cecil Green Park House with choir music, memories, chatter happy and sad. Read more
Free Range
Viola Desmond, Rosa Parks
The image of civil rights leader Viola Desmond will grace Canada’s next new $10 bill, being designed for issue in 2018, the Bank of Canada announced. In 1946 Desmond, a successful businesswoman in Nova Scotia, refused to Read more