“Hypocrite” vs “celebrity environmentalists”, words fly in climate change debate
Well-known U.S. environmental activist Bill McKibben has caused a stir by describing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “stunning hypocrite” on climate change. “Trudeau says all the right things, over...
View ArticlePilgrimage for Indigenous Rights, a 600 km walk supports UN declaration
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released its final report on Indian residential schools in June 2015. The TRC commissioners bluntly described those schools as instruments of...
View ArticleTrevor Herriot, Towards a Prairie Atonement
In April, I was invited by the Canadian Council of Churches to interview the well-known writer, naturalist and activist Trevor Herriot. Members of the CCC’s Commission on Justice and Peace were...
View ArticleIndigenous rights with a twist, a settler claims privilege
My wife Martha and I joined walkers in May for the final three days of a Pilgrimage for Indigenous Rights, a 600-kilometre trek from Kitchener, Ontario to Ottawa. The walkers encountered warm support...
View ArticleU.S leaves Paris climate change accord, what we can do now
The United States is walking away from the Paris agreement on climate change, which was so laboriously negotiated by most of the world’s countries in 2015. This is suicidal lunacy on the part of...
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