What we can learn from the Freedom Convoy (FC) ?

The recent freedom convoy of truckers and others who recently invaded Ottawa can teach us something. Members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) claim to be working on a rebellion. There are obviously different types of rebellions – there are peaceful rebellions and there are violent rebellions, and everything else in between.

It all begins with disinformation – or is it misinformation?

Let’s begin by defining the difference between misinformation and disinformation. Misinformation is false information that one spreads because one believes the information to be true. Disinformation is false information that one spreads even though one knows it to be false, i.e., an effort to deceive people. 

Protest of the Royal Bank of Canada, a major global investor in fossil fuels

If you click on this link, you will see some action at the HQ of Canada’s largest bank, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). The top video gives a general view of the demonstration.

If you open this link, from the 2.30 minute mark to the 4.40 mark, you will see the Rebellious Seeker cancelling his RBC credit card.

Rebellious Seeker

Ottawa

October 2020

My views on the NCC's decision to build a hospital in a wooded area on our experimental farmland

Here in Ottawa a new hospital will be built. Our National Capital Commission (NCC), after a detailed study recommended that the hospital be built at Tunney’s Pasture. Then suddenly it was decided to place the hospital in a wooded area on our experimental farmland. At an Ottawa city council planning committee, many citizens spoke about this decision. Here is my 5 minute contribution:

Rebellious Seeker's contribution to NCC hospital location debate

Think globally, act locally

I have always liked the slogan “Think globally, act locally”. Here is my contribution to it.

Think globally

This involves seeing things communally and radically, and also intensely.

 

Facing the future

I am running out of simple solutions for facing the future, but I do have some questions.

Trees and the environment

There is a storm brewing at the Experimental Farm. Plans are afoot to use 43 acres to build a world-class hospital there. It will be a massive structure, complete with 20 acres of parking, including a four-story parking garage. It will be a car driver’s paradise. No more tedious searching for that last limited parking space. To build this hospital, many trees will need to be sacrificed, about 600 by a recent count.

Rebellious Seeker's encounter with Rebel News

Here below is a documentary put out by an extreme right-wing organization called "Rebel News". It is called Facts and Feelings, in which we get the right-wing Feelings about climate change and I try to introduce some Facts.

The Rebellious Seeker makes his entrance on a bike at about the 27:32 min. mark. You can skip ahead to watch the interaction or watch the entire video from the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7fr9OMJQM


Rebellious Seeker

Ottawa
8 January 2020

Why Bottled Water?

Happy New Year to you all. Yes, I said happy, but I know that for many in the world, the coming year will not be too happy a prospect. We still have wars, civil conflicts, disease and growing inequality – so why concentrate on tackling the bottled water problem?

Why I bike

I now bike almost everywhere in Ottawa all-year round. Ottawa is becoming a leading biking city, with bike paths and bikeable bridges popping up everywhere. 

I bike because:

-       - I get my daily exercise just going from point A to B

-      -  I create no air pollution while biking

-      -  I have no parking problems when I get to where I am going

-      -  Every person on a bike is one less car on the road (this may be the strongest argument for biking as it gives drivers a reason to be enthusiastic about biking)

Also, (and this may surprise you), I do NOT wear a helmet. To see why, go to www.cyclehelmets.org.

How Canada's 1 per cent is pulling ahead [The Globe and Mail (BC edition, 9 Oct 2017)]

"New census data provided to The Globe show the biggest pay raises have gone to the country's highest earners, along with significant regional and gender differences. A look at how the numbers break down."

-- Rachelle Younglai Murat Yukselir

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-bc-edition/20171009/281642485388035