I have a prepper friends who can now say: “We told you so!” This is the BIG ONE!!! Get ready like we are! Not. Yes, if you are immune compromised you are in danger. However, if you live where there is a good health care system you are probably AOK. However, that does not mean […]
From Settler to Indigenous
Settler: “a person who moves to live in a new area” Indigenous: “originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. Also refers to the notion of a place-based human ethnic culture that has not migrated from its homeland” I was inspired to write about this topic by two events disparate in time and space: […]
You Should Never Retire
Now that I have your attention let’s have some fun playing with this idea. Let’s be clear – I am NOT saying we should always continue with our paid jobs until we drop dead. I am NOT saying no to good pensions. What I am saying is that each of us needs something to do […]
Alberta has its economic answer in front of them. Will they see the forest for the trees?
By Jeff Passmore, a founder and chair of Scaling Up – Canada’s annual industrial bioeconomy business conference – and CEO of Passmore Group Inc. Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the […]
Global warming solutions, explained
Humans have the solutions to address climate change. The question is: Do we have the will? By Christina Nunez PUBLISHED January 24, 2019 The evidence that humans are causing climate change, with drastic consequences for life on the planet, is overwhelming, but the question of what to do about it remains controversial. Economics, sociology, and […]