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COP25 Madrid delays real climate action
– by Peter Carter – There is now, at long last, agreement that the world is in a planetary climate emergency. COP25, in moving from Santiago, Chile, to Madrid, Spain,…
A stiff sentence: redacting Julian Assange from the record
– by Geoff Olson – I was recently commissioned to write an article on arts and technology for a Canadian literary journal. It ballooned into a 5,000 word piece…
The courage to care
– by Duane and Catherine O’Kane – We aren’t avoiding each other because of the problems. We have problems because we are avoiding each other. You are standing alone in…
Bells for Peace: an idea whose time has come
Individuals, families, city mayors and officials, and clergy from all faiths are encouraged to join the 2020 “Bells for Peace” campaign to unite the world for Peace. On August 6,…
Now that the Queen is our largest cannabis dealer, how are things?
– by Shawn P. Buckley – I have been a criminal defence attorney for 25 years and have witnessed the Crown and the courts relentlessly punish persons caught with cannabis….
Word(s) of the Year: connecting urgent ecojustice dots
– by Bruce Mason – William Blake (1757-1827) urged us “to see a world in a grain of sand”, but the visionary poet didn’t foresee the ubiquity of micro-plastics on…
Is the most widely prescribed heartburn pill killing people?
The more you know, the more uncertain you are. – by Alan Cassels – In the 2008 book “Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance”, historians Robert Procter and Londa…