Analysis from Tzeporah Berman Prime Minister Mark Carney has just been listed by Newsweek as second in their list “Revenge of the Climate Heretics: The 50 Leading Eco-Policy Dissenters”. Right after Bill Gates and before Trump. And yesterday Cansda received the “fossil of the day” at #cop31. Oh Canada! how far we have fallen. And... Continue Reading →
[Ken Gray] One of the highlights of my time as a music student at London's Royal College of Music was singing in Britten's War Requiem conducted by David Wilcocks in the spring of 1979. There are simply no words to describe the experience, something I recall as the 50th anniversary of the work's first performance... Continue Reading →
In Chicago several years ago I dearly wanted to visit the Griffin Museum of Science and Technology especially to view the U-505 exhibition. Sadly, time and circumstance did allow for a visit, but one day . . . it’s still on my bucket list. You would never get me down in one, but I remain... Continue Reading →
After Father Michael Lapsley was exiled by the South African Government in 1976, he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and became one of their chaplains. Whilst living in Zimbabwe he discovered he was on the South African Government hit list. In April 1990 he received a letter bomb in the post. As a result... Continue Reading →
Trump Makes His Chief Bigot His Chief of Staff - Not good news Reposted from Robert Reich on Substack Friends, Anyone wondering how Trump will respond to the biggest repudiation a modern U.S. president has ever received from American voters need wonder no longer. Today, Trump announced that Stephen Miller would become his chief of... Continue Reading →
As winter approaches, Palestinians in Gaza are desperately trying to prepare their tents and damaged homes while food cuts by the World Food Programme are exacerbating rising levels of hunger. Al-Abd Abu Beid prepares a meal of lentils from food rations distributed by the World Food Programme, one day after the UN agency announced it... Continue Reading →
What can I possibly add to the jubilation and commentary of Tuesday night and the next morning? We done did it, cut off the head of the snake. We got our miracle. A new world begins. Of course there is one tiny, tiny problem which is that going forward is going to be hard and... Continue Reading →
James (Big Jim) MacLellan, a longtime Men of the Deeps member, died Friday. (The Men of the Deeps) MacLellan retired from the group this year, but continued to play shows with them as recently as September Richard Woodbury · CBC News · Posted: Nov 01, 2026 For more images and video visit the CBC site... Continue Reading →
A Guide to What We’ll Know on Election Night, Hour by Hour By Nate Cohn in the New Work Times daily letter Today, the voters will have the final say on the 2026 election. But as has so often been the case in recent years, we might not learn their verdict on election night. To... Continue Reading →
After years of working six or seven days a week in her one-woman Orchard on View sandwich shop, 71-year-old Mei Lee is finally putting her feet up. Jack Knox in the Victoria Times Colonist, Oct 29, 2026 As an antidote to the huffing and puffing of the election campaign, meet Mei Lee. Or, perhaps, meet... Continue Reading →
