B.C. has banned grizzly hunting, and, as is all too common, this has led to confrontational thinking. Hunters say, “There’s plenty grizzlies; it’s all a PETA ploy.” The cabinet minister in charge says, “There are not enough grizzlies to continue a hunt with our current information.” My view is something like this: People who hunt so…
On November 10, a Saskatchewan court held a justiciability hearing with big implications on the future of coal burning in the province. Five months earlier, on June 18, Saskatchewan’s Minister for Crown Corporations Jeremy Harrison had informed SaskPower staff that the province would ignore the federal Clean Electricity Regulations and keep coal “a pillar” of…
Jessica Rose’s new book encourages young people to embrace art as a powerful tool to raise environmental awareness and drive social change. Readers ages 9-12, as well as leaders, can consider practical, easy-to-follow steps for more sustainable creative practices and learn from artists who “work with the environment rather than disrupting it.” With clarity and…
There’s an old French saying: Pas de soleil, pas d’esprit. (Everything sounds pretty in French.) It translates – no sunshine, no spirit. To that I would add, No–vember. Another spectacular fall day unfolds outside my window. Fluffy white clouds float through a cerulean sky like sailing ships on the Caribbean. Magnificently coloured leaves rustle in…
There is nothing I like better than being in the wilderness. But here I am, stuck in a city where the wild beauty of the earth is tamped down by the busyness of living, amongst brick, steel and wood buildings, connected by miles of asphalt roads. Between too sporadic excursions, my imagination must survive on…
At a recent outdoor church service, I asked the children if they knew any of God’s commandments. They mentioned quite a few from the Old Testament such as don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t swear, obey your parents and so on. I asked if they remembered the one about where you should go to the bathroom…
I see dead people – a lot. As a classically trained anatomist with a passion for cadaveric dissection, my context for that famous line from the 1999 film The Sixth Sense is far more literal. I have spent the last 15 years of my career regularly working with deceased bodies (specifically, cadavers) to teach aspiring…
On a plot of land northeast of Edmonton sits three acres of agricultural refuge cocooned by an old-growth forest. “Caring for the land and each other,” Lady Flower Gardens (LFG) is a non-profit community service that works with various agencies to provide a place of work and healing for disadvantaged Edmontonians. Wander through the garden…
Poetry in Place is a collection of attention. This anthology, edited by Deborah Bowen and Noah Van Brenk, brings together a wide diversity of poetic voices, each reflecting on their experiences of one small region of Southern Ontario. Imagined as “the land between the waters,” this area between Lake Ontario and the Grand River, west…
Doing the night checkon a mild September night –cattle all comfortable and content,kittens still playing.They will settle down after lights out. Jupiter and Saturn towards the south,high in a moonlit sky.To the east, there, just abovethe silhouette of trees, the moon.Bright and two days past full,tonight she has a companion,a brilliant little dot – Mars!They…
I garden at 5:00 a.m.early morning, heavy dew why not pick some peascrisp pods some full some notpuzzled wife who thinks me nuts, a braille gardenerwho squats with God no accusation nowbut affirmation ‘what are you doing?’an approbation of the divine who thinks me no moreeccentric than he who walks the peasin the cool of…
When I was around 10 years old, my parents bought me a telescope. Although my major adult interests would be in the social sciences, arts and humanities, as a child I had a pronounced affinity for astronomy. Something about those bright celestial objects easily fired the imagination of a schoolboy. Two years after my birth,…
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