Buy Nothing Day

Ironically, now that I am selling food, I find myself on the wrong side of this fantastic movement. I want to sell you stuff. I want people to eat fair trade, organic food. But, perhaps, buy nothing day can mean more than just hesitating to shop one day a year. Perhaps, on a day when the specials are so exciting, we can try to think about the gift of giving not just to our immediate friends but to our collective futures, and the futures of our great grand childen, whose voices are keeping Drew Dellinger awake at night...

But hey...buy some fair trade books?

Death Penalty for Canadians

Great article by a MARLYS EDWARDH AND LORNE WALDMAN.

Canadians have a right to expect that their government will intervene on their behalf in a forceful manner whenever they are at risk of cruel and inhumane treatment. But the conduct of this government suggests that it is more concerned about politics. Devaluing the citizenship of unpopular Canadians in difficulty abroad cheapens it for everyone.