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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLII–Housing ‘Crisis’: Real or Contrived?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLII–Housing ‘Crisis’: Real or Contrived? September 28, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Housing ‘Crisis’: Real or Contrived? Some morning thoughts (prompted by the attached article; and a version of which I posted on my Town’s Facebook ‘Politics’ Group) that focus on my own province’s (Ontario, Canada) context regarding […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIV–‘Representative’ Democracy: A Ruse To Convince Citizens That They Have Agency In Their Society
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIV January 29, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. ‘Representative’ Democracy: A Ruse To Convince Citizens That They Have Agency In Their Society A friend recently posted on my FB timeline the link to an article about the plans of our provincial government in opening up sections of […]
Gov’t Can’t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner
A cell tower in rural Ontario in a file photo. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick) Gov’t Can’t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ontario’s former privacy commissioner is sounding the alarm about the government’s tracking of cellphone data to inform policy, after it was revealed recently that a federal agency has […]
A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19 — and provide delicious meals
A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19 — and provide delicious meals There are many hard lessons learned from the pandemic. One is that our food system needs a serious reboot. Luckily, we need only look to nature’s cycles for clues on how to fix it. In a circular food economy, food waste becomes valuable, affordable […]
What’s really behind the Ford government’s push to pave protected wetland in Pickering
What’s really behind the Ford government’s push to pave protected wetland in Pickering Rival developers competing to host Canada’s biggest retail warehouse, which sources say is for Amazon Roughly half of this property in Pickering, owned by Triple Group, is classed as a protected wetland. If approved for development, commercial real estate analysts say it […]
Canadian Health Ministry Exploring “Immunity Passports,” Vaccine “Tracking And Surveillance”
Canadian Health Ministry Exploring “Immunity Passports,” Vaccine “Tracking And Surveillance” Ontario government says non-vaccinated people could face travel, social restrictions The Health Minister of Ontario in Canada has stoked controversy by suggesting that people who do not take the coronavirus vaccine will face restrictions on where they can travel and spend time. When asked by […]
Chief Medical Officer Says Canadians Who Refuse Vaccine Won’t Have “Freedom to Move Around”
Chief Medical Officer Says Canadians Who Refuse Vaccine Won’t Have “Freedom to Move Around” Suggests those who don’t take the shot will have to wear masks. Cole Burston via Getty Images Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer says that those who refuse to take the COVID vaccine won’t have “freedom to move around” and will have to […]
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en members join day of action to support Ontario nation locked in conflict over development on its traditional territory. About 50 people marched on Highway 16 in New Hazelton as part of a national day of action on Indigenous land rights. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. […]
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec?
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec? The question of how the Canadian provinces should deal with the issue of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be contentious and occasionally acrimonious. The new provincial government of Ontario has declared its intention to cancel that province’s cap-and-trade system—referring to it as “a punishing, regressive tax that forces low-and […]
Canada Covering Up Global Warming Nuts Destroying the Water Supply
Canada Covering Up Global Warming Nuts Destroying the Water Supply COMMENT: When Government turns on its own citizens. Good day, Martin; This climate change movement here in Ontario, Canada has gone too far. Construction of windmills in a small farming area has contaminated 16 residential water wells with that destroyed the pumps and piping that feed […]
State of emergency, child missing amid Ontario floods
State of emergency, child missing amid Ontario floods Brantford state of emergency: HIGHLIGHTS, must-see visuals of ice jam Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7:34 AM – Wednesday was marked by flood crises in parts of southern Ontario, particularly the Grand River, where flood warnings were still in effect for much of its watershed Thursday. One person […]
Oh Canada! Part-Time Jobs Crash Most In History
Oh Canada! Part-Time Jobs Crash Most In History The Canadian job market has never lost more part-time jobs – ever – than in January… Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 5.9% as total job losses for January dropped the most since 2009, but it was the 137,000 collapse in part-time jobs that stands out. So what […]
A Curious Thing Happened When Ontario Hiked Minimum Wages By Over 20%
A Curious Thing Happened When Ontario Hiked Minimum Wages By Over 20% Minimum wage hikes, and the inevitable job losses that result from them, are a consistent topic of conversation for us…here are just a couple of recent examples: Seattle Min Wage Hikes Crushing The Poor: 6,700 Jobs Lost, Annual Wages Down $1,500 – UofW […]
Council of Canadians: Stop Nestle from bottling water on expired permits!
Stop Nestlé from bottling water on expired permits! Send an e-mail to your Member of Provincial Parliament calling on them to speak up against renewing Nestlé’s expired permits and for phasing out bottled water permits for good. 996,568,672 Nestlé is about to take its 1 billionth litre of groundwater on an expired permit […]
