Archive for October, 2007

Treating Prisoners Right

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Henry here today. The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Glen Race who is charged with three cross border killings is getting sicker without his medication. He is being held in a prison in New York and apparently not being treated for his paranoid schizophrenia. He is not getting appropriate medication and in addition he is […]

War Wounds Run Deep

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Dealing with grief

Henry here. The local paper carried a story headlined: “We now know where they are.” It seems an allied plane which was carrying weapons to the polish resistance was shot down in 1944.

The wreckage was only found last year and the funeral ceremony for the airmen held in Krakow a short time ago. […]

Blog Action Day: The Environment

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Hi all. Today is Blog Action Day and today’s topic is the environment. There are lots of things we can do to help the environment (and ourselves) and many of them can be found here. We’re being encouraged not to idle our cars, leave lights on or leave the computer running when we’re not using […]

The Power Of Smell

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Henry here. Sorry for the long absence. For over twenty years the local government used an area several miles from here to dump some 4 million tones of unseparated garbage. The community rejoiced when the dump closed and the periodic stench stopped wafting over to us from the dump.

With the closure of the dump, scholarships […]