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How The Household Appliances of Capitalism Use You
When we built our new home 6 years ago we bought all new energy efficient appliances, all from Sears, all Kenmore. This week while baking some custard, the stove, Kenmore (made by Frigidaire), started beeping and the panel on the Electronic Oven Control (EOC) started flashing “F10”. We dug out the stove manual and afterContinue reading “How The Household Appliances of Capitalism Use You”
An Attempt at an Honest Settler Perspective and Fair Reconciliation
Having a day to honour the people who were here before any European settlers is long overdue. I grew up in Canada learning so little about the people who settlers found here some 500 years ago, that an honest description of what I knew has to be an admission I was totally ignorant. Let’s beContinue reading “An Attempt at an Honest Settler Perspective and Fair Reconciliation”
Let’s Not Burn Our Forests for Heating
As the map clearly shows, supplying Northern Pulp and Bowater Mersey has been a destructive process for our forests. We have clear cut far too much of our 12 million acres of our forests to supply a low value product – pulp wood. Since the closure of the mills, some are advocating use of theContinue reading “Let’s Not Burn Our Forests for Heating”
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