Archive for Social justice & diversity

If you believe Stephen Harper is actually interested in combatting climate change, read this history of some of his statements. [Link broken, but here’s a similar list and yet another timeline.]  Even more significant to me is the fact that in Mr. Harper’s history, he solicited money to fight against the Kyoto protocol.  That ties him firmly to a base of support with an entrenched interest in defeating meaningful progress.     Read more »

As an update on my post about how John Tory would sue First Nations, the man has actually made this into an election platform, demonstrating that it was not a slip of the tongue he regrets.

It’s interesting to note that his own advisers admit the Province may have no authority to impose the kind of remedies he proposes.

Perhaps what he should do is to begin by cracking down on the illegal occupations of native lands.  For example, he could sue all of us here in Toronto for the centuries-old occupation of disputed Mississauga territory.

This in response to a story in the Toronto Star (September 13, 2007) which filled me with horror and outrage!     Read more »

Everyone is invited for this event:

Pride Week Meet and Greet with Elizabeth May
Pride Tuesday, 2007 June 19, 5-6:45pm
Byzantium Restaurant
499 Church St
free

I was recently invited to join Facebook by a respected friend, so I finally bit the bullet. It has been a great experience. A Facebook friend who helped out on the Canadians for Kyoto project I was involved with has proven to be an amazing source of interesting information. Unfortunately, the corollary to the phrase “No news is good news” is that “news is bad”.

I had great hopes that John Tory would be a reasonable, moderate voice that would take the provincial Conservative party out of the extreme right wilderness and bring a more measured tone to the Legislature. So I was a bit disappointed by his willingness to embrace nuclear power even more passionately than McGuinty’s Liberals.

But what my Facebook friend pointed me to is a side of John Tory I find far more chilling. Because although nuclear power terrifies me, its proponents are often progressive, compassionate people. They are often, in my mind, right thinking but mistaken in their analysis. But here is John Tory suggesting, in the face of Caledonia residents protesting the First Nations occupation in their town, that he would sue the First Nations groups for the costs of their blockade.     Read more »