Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
Category: Meditate and reflect
Another day, another apocalypse
Yesterday Salon magazine ran a piece by Mike Davis about the end of the Holocene and how this abrupt departure from the climate stability we’ve known for the past 10-11,000 years means that global agriculture is doomed and the planet is going to start… Continue Reading “Another day, another apocalypse”
As legitimate as who?
Last week I spoke at a conference of women from my union about the current state of collective bargaining and pay equity. While there I noticed on the agenda that Daisy Kler from Vancouver-based Rape Relief was scheduled to speak the following day on… Continue Reading “As legitimate as who?”
Uribe's hope. Harper's handout.
I’m not surprised, but I am deeply disturbed that a “free trade” pact with Colombia has been rammed ahead by Harper’s Conservatives despite decades of government-sponsored human rights abuse and civil war. And while Harper is trying to paint this as “all in the… Continue Reading “Uribe's hope. Harper's handout.”
Hope, politics & music.
After the Iron Maiden fiasco of last Tuesday (okay, not really a fiasco, but I got really skeeved out by the crushing number of men at the stadium – I get nervous around large crowds of either gender in absence of counterbalance) Brian and… Continue Reading “Hope, politics & music.”
Finding the real Canada
I’ve been thinking about Canada as a “country” a lot lately – spending time in the various provinces and cities of the nation will do that to you I suppose. Though, it is probably my time in Ottawa that has caused the most reflection… Continue Reading “Finding the real Canada”
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