Worse has happened, and is still happening, to Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes than the spill of “mineral oil” into the lake from the Bruce Nuclear site after a recent transformer fire there. Continue reading
Current Events
Same-sex Marriage Legislation
There could be, and there definitely should be a reasonable, balanced, well-informed public discussion about the pros and cons of the Liberal government’s proposed Civil Marriage Act. But unfortunately much of the opposition to the controversial same-sex marriage legislation seems rooted in old-fashioned homophobia; and I, for one, am turned off by it. Continue reading
Aboriginal Fishery
As that great 20th Century philosopher Yogi Berra once famously said, “it’s starting to look like déjà vu all over again.” I’m pretty sure what he was referring to had something to do with baseball, and not fish, and specifically not the here-we-go-again issues surrounding the Aboriginal fishery in our area waters. Continue reading
Public Access to Government Information
Our society functions to a very large degree on the basis of trust and faith. Every day many of us drive down local roads and highways and trust oncoming vehicles driven by complete strangers will stay on their side of the road. The margin of safety – a few feet, or the width of a painted yellow line – is very slim indeed, considering what’s at stake. But trust makes it infinitely wider, so much so that we rarely if ever think of the catastrophic possibilities if two vehicles meet head on at the combined speed of 160 km/hr. Continue reading
Finding Hope Ness 