A tip of my toque to two of our local Progressive Conservative MPPs for their determination to hold Ontario’s Liberal government to account for its decision to close the Owen Sound and Walkerton provincial jails. Continue reading
Month: December 2011
NWMO Asked to Conduct an Initial Screening
I am possibly the least surprised person in the Grey-Bruce area to see local communities near Bruce Nuclear starting to show interest in being picked as the central site for the long-term, underground storage of Canada’s growing pile of highly radioactive, very dangerous used nuclear fuel. Continue reading
Harper Government Hell-bent to Abolish the Long Gun Registry
You would think Nathalie Provost had long ago paid her gun-control dues, by a long shot. You would think she deserved universal respect after being shot four times with the unrestricted semi-automatic rifle Marc Lepine used to murder 14 young women. Six of them died near Provost. She was among the 13 others wounded 22 years and four days ago at Montreal’s L’Ecole Polytechnique in the Montreal Massacre.
Yet an article Provost wrote that was published in the Sault This Week a week ago didn’t just get a lot of comments, most of which disagreed with her gun-control point of view. Some were downright contemptuous, disrespectful, and even scary. Continue reading