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This just makes no sense, folks. That's one thing I added to the Climate Action Team's letter to the Manitoba government.  According to a friend's back of the envelop math -- so of course it's possible something is missing/miscalculated/misunderstood -- for only about $1 billion, the government could subsidize insulating homes to a degree that would reduce energy demand to the degree this plans to scale it up. Add to that the fact that clean energy's star is rising as fast as fossil fuel's is tanking ( Check out Max Fawcett's piece in Canada's National Observer ), and it's impossible not to conclude the decision makers are either intentionally idiotic and ill-informed or maliciously pursuing interests that have to do with enormous short term financial gain and zero benefit to the general population.  So, take a look at this letter and please send a version of it yourself.  Send your own letter Thanks, Climate Action Team Manitoba !  I am writing toda...

The fact that governments and respectable news organizations continue to use the social media app formerly known as Twitter has rankled for a while. When news of the AI bot's new feature of sexualizing images nonconsensually came to my attention, I couldn't just rant to friends anymore.  It was time for a letter: Dear Mayor and city councillors This message is addressed to the members who have a listing for Twitter on either their CoW page or their websites.  Please stop. For more than a year, many major organizations have been officially deciding that the reach offered by the social media platform formerly known as Twitter is not worth supporting an almost-trillionaire who is completely comfortable with white supremacist rhetoric, spreading disinformation, displacing human labour with low-quality AI products, and, in only his most recent egregious act, allowing the platform to do non-consensual sexual violence through image manipulation.  https://www.wired.com/story/...

The repression of pro-Palestinian protestors is shocking. The British government is allowing prisoners on hunger strikes to die, simply for asking for their rights as prisoners (e.g., a fair trial). Their crime: protesting an arms manufacturer.  This arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, get plenty of money from Canada as well.  Learn more here So, it's time for a letter! Here's my edits to Just Peace Advocates' letter for Canadian banks and pension plans. Click here to send your own letter. I am writing today in horror over your institution’s investment in Elbit Systems.  Elbit Systems is an Israeli weapons manufacturer.  Israel is verifiably committing genocide.  According to international law, any state or financial entities aiding and abetting a state committing genocide is complicit.  Stop it.  Elbit provides ground equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles for the Israeli military. It also produces tank shells, rockets, drones, electronic warfare...

Our oh-so-popular and oh-so-duplicitous premier is at it again. Basking in an undeserved reputation of being progressive and caring about climate, he's about to introduce fossil fuel power to our renewably resourced province. Likely to build world-destroying (in so many ways) data centres.  Meanwhile, for a lower investment of millions, the amount of power set to be generated could be saved simply by properly insulating thousands of houses and reducing energy consumption.  To say nothing of the fact that, relative to the “supply” available, we haven't even begun to use solar and wind power.  Thank you to the Climate Action Team of Manitoba who is resisting, educating, and offering alternatives.  Read more: New Provincial Fossil Gas-Fired Power Plant Contradicts Climate Commitments, Misses Opportunities And adapt and write your own letter as I did: Send a letter I am writing today to voice my strong concern regarding your government’s decision to build a new $3 ...

On the longest night, we gathered at Home Street Mennonite Church for an Advent vigil for Palestine. The liturgy below was adapted from  Preach Palestine 2025: Advent of a revolution and birth of a movement by Freedom Church of the Poor; FOSNA; Kairos - the Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and Red Letter Christians: God with us: faith in the face of genocide and the service was a response to the Red Candle Advent challenge . In longing and grief, we also heard about Kairos II, the “Moment of Truth,”  whose challenge we took up to name occupation , apartheid , and genocide . From Preach Palestine, opening reflections included... “We live in a time of monsters. “The story and tradition of Advent reminds us that the time of monsters is also a time of powerful expectation. A time when we see the signs of something new breaking through. “The Advent story was intended to affirm a new way, realized in the lives and struggles of the poor and dispossessed, that se...

It’s not just Gaza anymore (it never was). The attempted erasure of Palestinians from the West Bank – the West Bank *of the Jordan River*, not of Israel – is ramping up. The spitefulness of the tactics is appalling: in a moment of climate change, in a precarious desert-adjacent ecosystem, would who uproot thriving olive trees that are 100s of years old, providing shade, water cycling and beloved food? And so, a letter to the foreign minister courtesy of Kairos Canada (not to be confused with Kairos Palestine).  I am deeply concerned that the Israeli military and settlers are escalating the displacement,  dispossession and violence of Palestinians in the West Bank.  Ms Anand, your failure to say anything substantive in condemnation of Israel’s denial of entry to 6 MPs deepens that concern. In a recent report (Dec 4, 2025) the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) provides the following update on the humanitarian situation in the West Bank (Januar...