Good Sunday Morning!

Yesterday was a grand time with  the Salt Spring Island Greens, and the whole community for the annual celebration of Pride. Salt Spring has been celebrating the LGBTQ 2S+ community since 2007! and it was, as ever, a joyful event. Continue reading Warmest Day In Recent History (July 29, 2024) →

Good Sunday Morning!

Hello all. Your irregular correspondent John Kidder subs in today. Elizabeth is fine, off to Halifax for Pride, and on and on and on she goes. I used to think when I was an entrepreneur that I was the hardest-working person imaginable. My imagination never extended to Elizabeth who is on the job all the time. Continue reading We Should Try To Fix It (July 21, 2024) →

Good Sunday Morning!

Bastille Day! Where’s our revolution?

July 14th and it is Bastille Day. The annual marking of a major event in the French Revolution in 1789. Revolutionary fervour had spread around the world from 1776 and the American Revolution to the French Revolution, moving to a different type of revolution but one with total transformative effect–the Industrial Revolution. Our modern world is in the throes of instability in nearly every corner of the world and across multiple spheres. Continue reading A Whale In The Wild (July 14, 2024) →

Good Sunday Morning!

In a welcome antidote to rising right-wing populism, as predicted the British Conservative party went down in humiliating defeat. Labour leader Keir Starmer is the new UK PM after fourteen years of Conservative government, from David Cameron, Theresa May, to Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and the forgettable Liz Truss, who lost her own seat. The far right made gains under the Reform party with Nigel Farage winning a seat for himself within a caucus of 5. But less reported was the smashing success of the Green Party of England and Wales, winning 7% of the popular vote and gaining four seats. Continue reading Culture Wars Propaganda (July 7, 2024) →