Category: Issue 03

A New Vision for Perth-Andover and Hotel Dieu

“SPEM REDUXIT” is the motto of the Province of New Brunswick It means “HOPE was restored”. In this beautiful part of northwestern New Brunswick, following the disastrous flood of March 23- 25, 2012 in Perth-Andover, we need to have our “HOPE restored” ! The Hotel Dieu Hospital Defence Committee...

Banksters Take All ….The Slave Game

Abraham Lincoln needed money to finance the Union Cause at the beginning of the American Civil War. When he approached the privately held banks for loans, they did not want Lincoln and the Union to succeed, so they offered him loans at utterly usurious interest rates of up to...

From the Editors…

As I sat in the waiting room of the clinic recently, another woman nearby was carrying on a fairly loud conversation with an acquaintance she had just run into. I was tuned out, as it was none of my beeswax, until she began talking about her shopping routine. Promoting...

And Furthermore…More About Plastic Pollution

Another major source of plastic waste is, of course, bottles for stuff like shampoo and dish soap.   I have another beef against most shampoos, besides the bottles, which will be the focus of this particular little rant.   Our skin is our largest organ. It is, on average,...

Plastic Insanity

A few years back I stumbled across a most horrific discovery….the man-made sea of floating plastic crap in the Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And then it got even more mind boggling, it wasn’t the only one of these obscenities. There are four more of these...

Tasty Ratatouille

I have been eating more vegetables recently, and avoiding meat. We don’t have much access to meat from humanely and naturally raised animals up here yet, and industrially raised animals suffer brutal lives, are fed with GMO feed and are full of chemicals, antibiotics and hormones.   Eggplant is...

Creating a New Paradigm

“All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.” The following essay is from the wanttoknow.info website, a news source that I find very informative and useful, especially in these weird and parlous times upon good old Mother Earth.   This essay focuses...

The Day of the Crocodile or, Flooded Out in Northern Ghana

The vivid accounts of the flooding in Perth-Andover, having reached me by chance in far-off Ludwigsburg, Germany, have brought back memories of my own flood experience years ago in the West African nation of Ghana. That’s the way floods are. Provided you survive, you do get over them. But...

Macintosh Weaving

Last weekend I popped into the Farmer’s Market at its new location at the Canadian Legion to check out the action. It’s a little too early in the season for produce, but there were many Crafters and Artisans displaying beautiful hand-made wares. Judy MacIntosh had a table displaying some...

Pet Tails

Poquito’s Story by Stephanie This handsome lad & I hooked up about five years ago. I was heading downriver on Rte 105 when I spotted a very small kitten running towards the road. He was running in a kind of lopsided way, and looked terrified. I slammed on my...