A Life Journal For Our Great and Troubled Times
I received a heartbreaking email today from the Humane Society International regarding the extreme heat and resultant bushfires in Australia. I get angry reading these emails because years of ignoring the warnings about global warming has brought our world to this point, and as usual its the most powerless, in this case animals, who...
Even though I’m fully an adult as a post 50 year old, I’m still evolving as as a person, as are my political beliefs. I would define myself politically as a democratic socialist liberal who believe in traditional Christian values. My being Christian as well as an activist defines my morality and they both...
(Pic: The Town of Riace, Italy, brought back to life by its willingness to welcome and accommodate migrants. ALESSIO MAMO/THE GLOBE AND MAIL) Until you know the facts and truth of what’s going on, it’s very hard to form an informed opinion and know how to proceed. That is why I am very hopeful...
It was upsetting to read about two more culls being proposed by the hunting and fishing lobby, groups and some First Nation groups here in Canada. They want to target west cost seals and sea lions, and Ontario’s cormorants. Both of these share a common diet of fish which seems to the excuse or...
There continues the raging one sided debate online and in media about political correctness. This value system began in the 1980s along with the emergance of far conservative politics and the white supremacy, anti feminism, anti progressive, anti liberal western cultural and political movement. Political correctness is a pretty simple and basic concept and...
Anyone who was a girl growing up in the 1980s recognizes the culture Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is talking about, and the plausibility that the events she is accusing Judge Kavanaugh occurred. Everything Dr. Ford and her fellow accusants have said rings true; about the era and party atmosphere, about the underage drinking and...
This hashtag trended number one on Twitter on August 18, 2018. There were lots of interesting, funny and some angry tweets on the subject. It shows that we all, of all the post WW1 generations, feel a great deal of generational pride and rightfully so. It also shows that there is anger and disconnect...
Today’s sickness is sin, and good and virtue is the cure. Hate is born of sin and ignorance, and our daily lives have become a constant fight against these most unChristian, and unwestern values. Far political extremists and haters keep trying to sell us a status quo where anything goes, and its cool to...
There are really only two kinds of people in the world, the good and the bad. They can also be broken up into those who are and support bullies and those who don’t. I have always fit into the last category, and it’s something I can be proud of. In my life and even...
Yesterday went as expected with a PC majority of 76 seats, which really was the worst case scenario, and what everyone was dreading. It is terrible, but it’s not all bad news. The Green Party won a seat in Guelph, their first ever, alot of good opposition candidates won, and Toronto remained PC free,...