The World Liberty Congress (WLC) has joined the global plea to leaders of the free world, urging them to broaden the definition of apartheid in all international laws to include gender apartheid.

United Against Gender Apartheid is a campaign led by incredible women leaders and…

Western welcomes Brescia community - Western News news.westernu.ca/2024/05/wester…

The true cost of critical minerals | Canada's National Observer: Climate News nationalobserver.com/2024/05/02/opi…

Don't fall for Pierre Poilievre's rants that Canada is broken — it's an insult to Canadians - Toronto Star apple.news/AqSDDZ5Q3RemZz…

Welcome African Blue Communities!

BREAKING NEWS: NEWARI Becomes the First African NGO to Record Groundbreaking 'Blue Community' Designation fountaincarereporters.blogspot.com/2024/05/breaki…

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Brescia University College, the last all women’s university in Canada, and where I have served as Chancellor, closes today. Here is a lovely video of our last ring ceremony. My remarks are included in the audio. drive.google.com/file/d/11_f59L…

Terrible story. Wake up Canada! This is the most important story of all! A planet running out of water.

‘There's no water': This duck hunter in Fort Smith, N.W.T., went out and found no ducks | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

Red Canoe with Islands
Kurt Swinghammer
2024

📊 According to new study, fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than 1/2 of world’s #PlasticPollution , w/ 6 (Altria, Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo & Coca-Cola) responsible for 1/4 of that. #EndPlasticProduction ✍️ >> act.gp/3wdOWsg

Watching Howard Stern thanking President Biden for his incredible leadership & compassion is EVEN better than listening to it. Take a minute to watch & then share this video far & wide. From all of us: Thank you, President Biden.

“Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say.
Some cities are subsiding rapidly, with one in six exceeding 10mm per year.” bbc.com/news/science-e…

Spring Sunshine
A.J. Casson
1923

UPDATE: Local tourism association Ottawa Tourism just sent me this statement indicating they are no longer promoting the Ottawa Book Expo as a result of PressProgress’ reporting.

They felt the festival “misrepresented itself” and does not meet their “promotional standards”:

Another teaser from my soon to be published collection of columns called Ever Wonder

Spring brings change open.substack.com/pub/mrrobertth…

For heavens sake - humans can fly to the moon and send space ships to Mars but cannot fly in water to endangered Hippos dying from lack of water
Herds of endangered hippos trapped in mud in drought-hit Botswana Elon Musk

phys.org/news/2024-04-h…

Excellent op ed by John Cartwright on the real culprits behind the housing crisis.

Poilievre’s unspoken words say everything - rabble.ca rabble.ca/politics/canad…

'If we can now build expressways through protected Greenbelts, then there's no green space in Canada that's safe.' Help save the Greenbelt, it’s wildlife and the top tier farmland within: ow.ly/tyCC50Rli8U #StopHWY413 #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #onpoli

China stopped taking our plastic. Now America is drowning in it. businessinsider.com/plastic-recycl… via @businessinsider