Children have a right to a safe and clean environment.   On this #WorldEnvironmentDay, let’s recommit to protecting our planet, and its oceans, to be fit for children and future generations.

Peterborough Library CEO, board deluged with letters of concern over impending job cuts ift.tt/LJPx3Gs

Margaret Atwood and Neil Young among signatories of open letter opposing #Ptbo Public Library staffing cuts. Open letter from Our Future Peterborough has been signed by more than 100 celebrated writers, artists, educators, and performers. Alex Bierk kawarthanow.com/2025/06/10/mar…

You can sign a petition supporting the demands in the letter chng.it/ZKTLqs2cYm

Can we please fix the Library? I don’t want Neil Young and Margaret E Atwood mad at me (*I voted against the cuts, and recently passed a motion for a full staff report on the “restructuring”)

Margaret Atwood and Neil Young sign open letter urging Peterborough library to reverse staff cuts trib.al/t3R4BX1

Great reporting from CHEX News on Global Peterborough. Time for Jeff Leal, Councillor Lesley Parnell, Matt Crowley 🇨🇦 to answer to the community for these shortsighted cuts. Margaret Atwood, Neil Young among authors and artists opposing Peterborough Public Library staffing cuts globalnews.ca/video/11238402…

.Neil Young, Sarah Harmer and Jill Barber are among the musicians, writers, artists and arts workers of various kinds who have backed an open letter opposing the Peterborough Public Library's recent staff cuts exclaim.ca/music/article/…

My mom Michele Landsberg wrote columns for decades - changing countless lives with her powerful prose and sparkling arguments. At 85, goddamn she still has it. Read this piece about her pop-up feminist protest against genocide. Mom, you’re my hero. archive.is/vc8me

Margaret Atwood, Neil Young, and Fred Penner join calls to halt proposed cuts at the public library that would eliminate three librarian positions. ptbotoday.ca/2025/06/16/903…

This is shameful to read. Cutting nurses from a healthcare system in dire need of nurses? Make it make sense Doug Ford

The City of Peterborough has temporarily halted cuts to library staff — including plans to eliminate the children's librarian — following immense community backlash. “We are glad that the city came to their senses,” an organizer told me. thestar.com/entertainment/…

The Peterborough Public Library has temporarily halted its controversial decision to eliminate three unionized librarian positions, including the children’s librarian. The proposed downsizing was set to reduce the library’s operating budget by $120,000. trib.al/cHynoIQ

Disgusting. Resign!

Mark Carney didn’t run on a pledge to enact c-5, to concentrate power in the hands of cabinet, to delete environmental laws from consideration , or dismiss public consultation prior to a project approval, for the Govt House Ldr to dismissively wave off concerns is disrespectful.

If Warren had done this in 2020 that would have been something. Brad Lander is a class act and the model of the sort of left-liberal we need to make coalition with the socialist left.

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.

Sad but true

You don’t get a Zohran Kwame Mamdani victory without the extraordinary grassroots movement that rallied around him. And you don’t get that movement without an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working people. My op-ed on Zohran's victory:

Eleanor Parker was born on this day in 1922, and we're sharing some of our favorite Baroness quotes to celebrate her birthday! 🥂 #SoundofMusic