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Oz Sizzles in the Hottest Summer Ever
Following close on the heels of the hottest summer in United States history, we now have the hottest summer in Australian history, 1.1oC (2oF approx.) hotter than the 1961-1990 average. Daytime maximum temperatures were 1.4oC (2.5oF) hotter than average. And this record-breaking summer happened courtesy of global warming alone, without a leg up from El […]
The Treaty of Waitangi, 1840
February 10, 2013
Below is the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi, signed by the Māori and British Crown in New Zealand in 1840. The Treaty also has a Māori version which was agreed to and signed simultaneously with the agreement below. The Māori version (available here) is just as definitive as the English version, and is also […]
The Fisherman and His Wife
February 9, 2013
A Fairy Tale from Grimm I was thinking about our civilization’s relationship with the environment, and how much we ask of it, and somehow this classic tale from the Brothers Grimm came to mind. THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside. The […]
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Chief to Gilbert Sproat, 1860
February 7, 2013
Alberni, Vancouver Island, 1860 We see your ships, and hear things that make our hearts grow faint. They say that more King-George-men will soon be here, and will take our land, our firewood, our fishing grounds; that we shall be placed on a little spot, and shall have to do everything according to the fancies […]
Conspiracies, Free Markets and Climate Change Denial
February 6, 2013
Outed as conspiracy theorists, climate change deniers suspect a plot. Recently a trio of social scientists, Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer, and Gilles Gignac published a paper studying the motivations and characteristics of climate science deniers, “NASA faked the moon landing–Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science.” For the […]
To My Granddaughter
February 3, 2013
Welcome, little one. What’s your name? Maybe Malaika, but you don’t know yet? 5 weeks early! Well, well. Haisla said to the doctor, that’s too early. But you were going to come regardless, and here you are. You weighed 3.3 kilos, more than seven pounds, which was at the 97th percentile for little folk like […]
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
February 28, 2013
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