The Silver Lining for Canada

(Sent to the Alberni Valley News – February 7, 2025 – Published Feb 18, 2025 ) Dear Editor, One thing gives me hope in a way I haven’t felt since I was a teenager.  Trump’s threats against our economy and our sovereignty as a nation have ignited the being of Canadians. I don’t see it …

A War Effort is Needed – To Transition from Fossil Fuels

Sent to the Alberni Valley news March 10, 2022 Published in the March 15, 2022 Alberni Valley News Dear Editor, Nearly every war of the past century can be directly or indirectly tied to the securing of fossil fuel resources. That applies to Ukraine today. My mother’s family (Neufeld and Heubner) were refugees from southern …

Watching The Trump Impeachment Trial – Day One

Regardless of one’s political leanings we are in a historic moment in the Presidency of the United States of America. In honour of that, I thought I would make a post of the proceedings today as the US Senate officially became a Court of Impeachment. You can view them through C-SPAN here: There are three …