Keeping with the spirit of 'Here come the Pi memes' and with how irrational our world is becoming...could we try to limit that to only 1 day?

Ed Broadbent's words spoken throughout his career are gems. Never more so than now as we face the need to speak out against illegal foreign actions in other countries. He eloquently protested U.S. actions in Latin America long ago and his words pertain well to actions in the Middle East now.

The PM was not present.

Will Canada speak out? New U.S. and/or Israeli violations of international law. "Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war." thebulletin.org/2026/03/desa...

#Peace activist A.J Muste, in 'Our Generation Against Nuclear War', D. I. Roussopoulos. (1983) During the Vietnam War, he held a candle alone at the White House every night, until death at age 82 in 1967. Reason? ‘Oh, I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.’

Recalling 1975 when the United Nations recognized International Women's Year & began celebrating March 8 as International Women's Day. Most men I knew, young & old, were quite miffed at the time. Link to Canadian government 'Women in Canadian History: A Timeline' which oddly stops at 2022. Yikes!

Excellent article for Canadians who should not be seeing speculative increases. Production costs are not changing here. We are not resonsible for fossil fuel companies' profit loss due to increases in production or supply cost outside of our borders

I had the good fortune to take UC San Diego's "Climate Change in Four Dimensions" MOOC more than 10 years ago Richard Somerville was one of 4 lecturers as was Naomi Oreskes, Charles Kennel & David Victor. Valuable course! Would we have a different world if western policy makers had also taken it?

Principles. Thankful that some like Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers lead the way by taking a stand behind them.

Oof. Saying this, I am guilty of being unkind and shallow but ... Convincing Berlin with a silver-tongued and flowing, natural, and easy command of language.

Opinions abound as to political responsibility and intention but no matter what, the end result is the same. More dead children. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

The Genetic Choir is not a group you would expect to weigh in on quitting use of services of big invasive U.S. tech companies, but they are.👍 This Dutch nonprofit ensemble of contemporary vocal improvisers creates projects & can be approached for collaborations & giving concerts. Have a look.

Canadians - Congratulations on taking last place. Stay the course. 🙏 . March 2026 Pew report, “In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” adults in 25 countries rate the morality of others in their country. Credit: Courtesy of Pew Research Center.

Another reason to boycott ChatGPT as Rutger Bregman recommends. Tumbler Ridge could have been warned. And who knows how even using ChatGPT influenced the shooter over time.

I thought I found a small doable role in my rural Ontario town where winter is formidable. Many here are chronically unhoused. Shelter is needed 24 hours/day to keep them alive. Made progress providing more time indoors but the larger community isn't putting skin in the game with me. Pep talk needed

Thoughts shared by an Hong Kong based Agence France-Presse Reporter/Editor covering the Middle East, North Africa and Afgh - Maryam Ishani. I understand fully that my safe life with many freedoms is an accident of geography, having been born in Canada and lived there all my life.

Just learned about ACLED - Armed Conflict Location & Event Data - independent, impartial NFP global monitor that collects, analyses, & maps data on conflict & protest...detailed current info on world-wide conflict and crisis. Solid credentials, sources & 20 year history. Granular & aggregate data.

It seems like only 10 years ago that the first drone appeared in my rural area. Now look! It is almost laughable that a huge stock of $20K drones in Iran could outlast multimillion dollars worth of U.S. stocks of interceptors or cruise missiles to end war. Watch for ads for U. S. drone builders...

Some history to heed for the sake of #Peace. Take in the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower in his speech, 'The Chance for Peace' April 16, 1953 Washington, D.C. just after he became president & Stalin had recently died. Context is largely the threat of nuclear war but it applies to all war.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (G. Santayana) A cartoon morphed it to say: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it." But historians CAN call it instead.

Oh well. Reportedly the first time consequences of geopolitical conflict caught up to a U.S. big data corporation. Not good if it affects connectivity for ordinary people in the Middle East and does not mitigate the tragedy of the school being hit where children died. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

My initial take on this Heather Cox Richardson opinion... 1) The problems for Iranians are complex & have a long tangled history. 2) The current self-serving 'solutions' from the U.S. president are "as shallow as pee on a plate". 3) I am no further ahead on how to support Iranians here or in Iran.

‘Don’t Mention the Children’ was written in 2014 by the children’s author, poet & activist Michael Rosen following a Guardian report that the Israeli government had banned a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza. Revisting the #poem for the dead children in Iran or anywhere else needed.

Today on Planet Earth. Humans are decidely not making good choices but #birds are carrying on. Spring Migration is under way. Get an idea of the action nightly here over the next three months via Birdcast from Cornell. birdcast.org/migration-to... From last night-

Biosecurity experts are raising concerns re: the convergence of AI with the life sciences. Risks include large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s various GPTs, Anthropic’s Claude, or Gemini enabling a broader range of people to pursue potential bioweapons. OpenAI just sold out to Trump. Ugh.

"Generative AI is not remotely reliable enough to make life or death decisions—and certainly not decisions that could involve millions of deaths." "We are on a collision course with catastrophe. Paraphrasing a button that I used to wear as a teenager, one hallucination could ruin your whole planet."

More than one day without a significant snow fall in 2026 has been rare. Now look! March is bringing us the big melt this week with temps above freezing both day and night. Dreaming of gardens is officially a go in Ontario! www.ontarioinvasiveplants.ca/wp-content/u...

Ursula Le Guin's words bear repeating today. “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted & changed by human beings. Resistance & change often begin in art, & very often in our art, the art of words.” youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk

Worth thinking about as we struggle to figure out how to progress. Jamie Catto has freely shared from his book 'Insanely Gifted' - a PDF of Chaper 1 - "How We All Became Approval Addicts" static1.squarespace.com/static/561eb...

I use Proton‬@proton.me as much as I can for email. Sadly, IT managers for many Canadian government officials & agencies block protonmail.com so I am obliged to use Gmail at times. Kudos to Proton support for contacting them to try for a fix. OK for a while but blocked again now. My turn to block...

And while you digest this horror, boycott ChatGPT. It chose to discard its principles. QuitGPT: quitgpt.org OpenAI president Greg Brockman gave $25 million to MAGA Inc last year, & CEO Sam Altman donated $1M to Trump's 2025 Inaugural Fund. ICE uses OpenAI technology for recruitment & infiltration.

Davos 2026 is over & no one received accolades for speaking about fairly taxing the rich as being key to global economic woes. I now have Rutger Bregman's book 'Humankind' in my hands so am thinking of Davos 2019 when he made that abundantly clear. Such a thrill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Lt...

Holding their ground or in this case, their river. Bravo! Every hard won grassroots success buys time for all of us. Also heartening to see Cargill, a big glyphosate dealer (pusher?) be thwarted.

Stern reminder to affluent countries and comfortable people everywhere - this is a human rights violation. www.srpoverty.org/2024/06/15/b...

Suggested reading. And please buy from a local bookstore if you want your own copy. Right? www.simonandschuster.ca/books/We-Are...

Are stories just stories? Or do we become the stories we tell ourselves? Wondering why we use the fictional 'Lord of the Flies' to teach kids about human nature when real children stranded alone on a real island didn't descend into savagery? They cooperated & cared for each other for 15 months.

Kudos to the geniuses of satire. www.thebeaverton.com/2026/02/pier...

"Individuals can be bullied into silence and obedience. So can whole populations. And so can facts and truth. Democracy matters at all scales." A useful article to revisit as political gaslighting is rampant. People also can be groomed into silence and obedience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to see! The problem has been visible for years but fellow pension holders I know have turned a blind eye so far. Even those who are committed climate activists! Many other big pension fund boards in Canada are similarly involved.

Direct link to RESET. Connects well to Cory Doctorow's recent work. Red flags are up! "In his series of Massey Lectures for CBC Radio, Deibert exposes the disturbing influence & impact of the internet &social media on politics, the economy, the environment and humanity." www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Taking in Ron Deibert's Massey Lectures 2020 is more urgent now. "aims in writing RESET: first was to summarize .... an emerging consensus about the many pathologies of social media & the organization of our entire communications ecosystem; the second was to lay out a principled framework...

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social stood up early in the game to point out clearly that our dominant economic system is incompatible with life on Earth for humans and many other species. Good time to revisit his 2019 thoughts. www.filmsforaction.org/articles/dar...

Thinking about large protests in Canada. Numbers in support of action on international human rights are increasing. Now can we get fired up nationally over violations of Indigenous rights and crucial envionmental protection? Recalling many Freedom Convoy protests in '22 but with low numbers.

Fellow Canadians - when was your wake-up moment to Indigenous peoples being trampled by fossil fuel corporate interests, aided by police forces? Mine was 2013 in New Brunswick, reinforced by action against Kinder Morgan protesters in 2016 & ongoing criminalization of Wet’suwet’en land defenders.

Escape the difficult present for a moment through this WWII story which unfolded in the difficult past. A tale resulting from uncertain vagaries or the vague uncertainties of life that somehow brings a kind of comfort to today. backyardhistory.ca/f/hooves-her...

Ahem. Implicates everyone, everywhere, every day. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

I had help today in defining the essence of Donald Trump. It came via Villan's Wiki. His recent move to repeal the U.S. government's power to regulate climate (see @naomioreskes.bsky.social) brought the White Witch of Narnia to mind. Change the name, gender and country & there it is. Am I right??

This web site is a good resource for all, especially for directing Indigenous allies . "IPCA Knowledge Basket, a digital space created to honour, celebrate, and catalyze Indigenous-led conservation pathways in Canada, including Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs). ipcaknowledgebasket.ca

Truth & Reconciliation with Indigenous people is being thrown under the wheels of the economic development bus. Colonialism drives this bus. Allies - help apply the brakes & reroute the bus in line with Indigenous wishes. 'Ring of Fire', new pipelines, new salt-water ports and so many more actions.