Good Sunday Morning!

Good Sunday Morning!  And the 100^th issue of this little newsletter since the SGI Greens revived it as a more personal letter from me. (and eternal thanks to Thomas Teuwen for the original concept and all that work!)

Happy Halloween! And Happy Opening Day of COP26! Continue reading Happy Opening Day (October 31, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

So, let’s start with the good news.

After six years of steady work in court battles and protests, the Mi’kmaw water protectors of the Sipekne’katik Nation have won!!  The natural gas storage facilities planned by Alton Gas of Calgary to be placed in abandoned salt mines would have contaminated the river.  A really good documentary on the issue was done by Elliot Page on environmental racism in Nova Scotia. Continue reading My pitch (October 24, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

Forgive me that this missive starts with new dates that now establish some important bookends in my life. Continue reading “Last Chance COP” (October 17, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

Happy Thanksgiving to all on this long weekend. Giving thanks. We pause to acknowledge the fraught history of this day and its associations with colonialism, conquest and oppression. I welcome it just the same. It is a three-day weekend focused on gratitude. Continue reading Focused on gratitude (October 10, 2021) →

First the things to celebrate!  Courts!! Justice!!

So unusual to celebrate…  My early legal fight to stop the spraying of Agent Orange led to my sainted mother, at that point still extant, to frequently say, “Judges should be taken out and beaten with chains.”  My mom’s book on the herbicide case was rejected by Farley Mowat’s dear friend Jack McClelland, famous Canadian publisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McClelland_(publisher) Continue reading An untenable situation (October 3, 2021) →