PostedDec 15, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion
Book Review by Ross Thrasher Run Like a Girl: a memoir of ambition, resilience and fighting for change, by Catherine McKenna. Sutherland House, 2025. A competitive swimmer in her teens. A world traveler and UN representative in her 20s. A corporate lawyer, founder of...
PostedJun 9, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion, Youth
Eco-fiction Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher “The water is only doing what it must. It is old and it is smart, and it has been changing forever, and we can no more fight it than we can fight the sky.” (From All the Water in the World) Two excellent new novels encompass...
PostedMar 26, 2025 | climate change, e-vehicles, opinion, sustainability, technology
By Arden Henley We can thank Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies and threats to our sovereignty for helping us to realize that in many ways we have become too dependent on the United States leading, in turn, to an overreliance on the extractive sectors of our...
PostedFeb 21, 2025 | e-vehicles, opinion, technology
While I completely understand why Canadians are booing in response to the US National Anthem on occasions such as hockey games, I want to urge a different and more constructive response. It is high time we worked together to further develop our manufacturing sector....
PostedJan 21, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, opinion, sustainability
By Arden Henley Whether it is in BC where a right-wing populist party just about overturned the governing centre-left, New Democratic Party, in France where Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party recently ousted the Prime Minister, or the United States where Donald Trump...
PostedDec 26, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, opinion, sustainability, Youth
by Bill Stovin The use of art and entertainment in climate communication Alongside legacy media, there’s a whole new media landscape in which long form conversations are happening in podcasts, blogs and newsletters. Art, humor, stories and music are all ways in...
