Vancouver climate strike
– Ana Arciniega photo – On September 27, 2019 100 thousand people of all ages met at Vancouver City Hall crossed the Cambie Bridge and joined 7 million worldwide. Tim…
Connecting through dreams
– by Bei Linda Tang – Dreams offer glimpses into our inner worlds, and reflect our deepest feelings, emotions, and desires. While it’s empowering to gain personal insight and take…
Specious monikers & famous fossils
The extinct trilobite, go-to genus for rock ‘n’ roll fossils – by Geoff Olson – The late British marine biologist Alister Hardy was once asked how many things were named…
Climate crisis also an opportunity
– by Peter G. Prontzos – Political Ecology: System Change Not Climate Change Dimitrios Roussopoulos Black Rose Books, 2019 When more than 97 percent of meteorologists, the federal Conservative party,…
Thanks for the dance, Leonard
MUSIC RISING by Bruce Mason In response to a Leonard Cohen tribute/obituary (“A triumphant soundtrack for our times,” December, 2016) an anonymous Common Ground reader, wrote: the Donald arrives nothing…
About bloody time
– by Karen Pickering and Jane Bennett – We are going to tell you the story of menstruation and menopause from the perspective of thousands of women, but also situate…
Wanted: a new mythology
The Power of Myth, three decades on – by Geoff Olson – I recently invited a friend over to my place to watch the PBS television series, The Power of…
Back To Shore – Shari Ulrich creates a musical safe harbour
MUSIC RISING by Bruce Mason Many Common Ground readers have grown up with the diverse, award-winning music and songs of Shari Ulrich – created in our part of the world…
Surveillance capitalism
– by Shoshana Zuboff – art by Anthony Freda, anthonyfreda.com When we think about capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, the titanic struggles of those eras, of that industrial…
Synthetic turf – not supported by science as a safe solution
– by Marlene Cummings – At Vancouver’s Trillium Park, just a short walk west from the calming vegetable plots, trees and wildflowers of Strathcona and Cottonwood Community Gardens, stand two…