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Ideology and Choices

Ottawa Citizen, Cape Breton Post, Victoria Standard: Feburary 4, 2011

The nation’s attention is temporarily focused on Old Age Security (OAS) issues and while we are offered complex actuarial reasoning for inevitable benefit reductions; the real issue is one of ideology and choices. I direct the reader’s attention to the fact that in October, 2011 Royal Dutch Shell announced that the governments of Alberta and Canada had agreed to contribute $865 million toward the cost of a carbon capture and storage facility…” This notice presents a number of questions, such as:

Afghanistan’s TAPI Pipeline – We Stand on Guard for Free
Canadian Charger
January 15, 2012

Occupiers' Style a Useful Lesson in Participatory Democracy

As published in the Ottawa Citizen: November 13, 2011.

Historical Context: Palestine Becomes the Modern State of Israel

As published in Humanist Perspectives Autumn 2011

Letter to Editor - 2011:

Sue Former Mayor O’Brien Over Cancelling Seimen’s Deal

As published in the Ottawa Sun: September 8, 2011

Letter to Editor - 2011:

Smog Denial

As published in Ottawa Citizen: October 21, 2011.

Our urban culture remains mired in a dangerously auto-centric mindset supported by the ease and convenience of personal automobile use. By employing deep denial, the motorists who exacerbate the health risks of smog continue to exercise their prerogative for personal mobility at the cost of other peoples’ health.

Book Review and Commentary: Among the Truthers: A journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground:
By Jonathan Kay

As published in the Peace and Environment News: July / August 2011.

Dying for Oil: Business as Usual-Canada and the TAPI Pipeline

As published in the Peace and Environment News: September / October 2011.

THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES: NORTHERN OLIGARCHY

Humanist Perspectives: Spring 2011 and National Library of Australia

Why does the Canada’s most influential and powerful business lobby group rate only three mentions in a mainstream newspaper like the Ottawa Citizen throughout 2010? The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) has somehow maintained a lower profile than its powerful but lesser cousins, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Wikileakers Perform a Public Service

As published in the Ottawa Citizen: Dec. 2, 2010

Far from being traitors or criminals, the so-called Wikileakers, at considerable risk to themselves, are providing the public with valuable information that we have every right to access. In most cases, it is our information being withheld by elected and unelected bureaucrats who seem to feel that only they are fit to decide what the public should know about public affairs.