I’ve ranted about climate change, I’m a stay a home father, and I’m a former biology teacher who owns a cloth diaper store and has a greenhouse. I might be accused of being a tree-hugging new age hippie. Or at least, the arctic equivalent of a tree-hugger, since hugging arctic dwarf scrub willows is just lying on a pile of broken twigs that will take 50 years to grow back.
But I’m in favour of a pipeline.
I know that the TV and movie industry would never sacrifice accuracy for melodrama, just like I wouldn’t sacrifice clarity for sarcasm. That’s why I know from watching fictional courtrooms that in real life it must also be true that sometimes the judge will direct a jury to disregard certain information that has been presented. I want to know how that works out because I am interested in human kind’s ability (or lack there of) to put genies back in bottles and walk away.
I think we would all improve the wake we make if we were mindful of the water we use and worked to use it efficiently. What better place to work on your wake than water? So here are my Top Ten Tricks for Saving Water – it saves us money and helps out our municipalities, too!
The Liberals came to power with a promise that 2015 would be the last election with the stodgy old electoral system. So here we are! On the dawn of a new age! A new and exciting election system this fall!
Well, something happened on the way to the bank, I guess. Proportional representation was just a bridge too far. Where we should be going is more like an intersection than a bridge.
Bell Let’s Talk Day is coming. It is just over a year away. Oh, yes, there is one next Wednesday, January 30th, but I’m more focused on the next one, because we have some work to do.
Canada is getting a new food guide for the first time in most people’s life time. Now it is not just about food, but about what to do with food. That reveals a sad truth: we don’t understand food anymore.
BC seems to generally want to change electoral systems, based on polls over the years. But they voted to chose to keep the old first-past-the-post system and not move to proportional representation. As always, the electorate is actually saying something that makes sense. They just aren’t getting what they want.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The Government of Nunavut has tried variations of the same way to increase Inuit teachers for about 30 years: run teacher education programs. What we need is an opportunity. A point in time where there is some kind of change that we can grab onto as a moment to change direction. Now we have it.
Protests in France, Brexit drama in Britain, and in the U.S., Trump being Trump. Three clues that the party is over: yes, the party for the middle class, but there’s another party that’s over, too.
Most people don’t want to be That Guy: The Breaker of Other Peoples’ Toys. Climate-anxious people think you are breaking theirs.
