Rethinking Lifestyle

Up to the end of September a lot of us in the earth caring community have been taking note: there seems to be way more bikes on the streets.

So the Trudeau government has just done what any honourable government would need to do. It has placed a tax on carbon.

Last Friday I joined others at the University of Manitoba research station at Glenlea for a 25 year anniversary celebration.

Parliament is now again sitting, and a carbon tax is again being talked about. Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan seems to be leading the opposition to such a tax.

In the years since southeastern Manitoba was settled by European immigrants about 140 years ago, the increase in human productivity has been remarkable.

Last week I compared the relative efficiency of walking and driving – which we consider more efficient depends on the criteria we apply.

In the last month, those of us who are gardeners have become busy harvesting our produce, eating some of it, and putting other produce up for the winter.

The first thing that happens when you show up at the Emergency Ward at the local hospital with some distressing ailment is that medical staff establish your vital health statistics like blood pressure and body temperature.

In this time of low energy prices, we do well to remember that the general energy price trend remains, of necessity, upwards.

A major news item recently has been the plight of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan’s third largest city. That city normally draws its water from the North Saskatchewan River, but the North Saskatchewan has been contaminated by an oil spill from a ruptured pipeline.