Paul Hawkins is a writer and an activist who agitates and campaigns for social and economic justice, the ecology of our only planet, and a better planet for us all.   In one of his books, “Blessed Unrest,” he described an interesting exercise that he had given to a...

Hello and welcome back to the Blackfly Gazette and “Thank You” to all of you that have supported and complemented Steph and I on our premier edition. Here’s #2 we hope you enjoy it as much as the first. “Jonny” here attempting to write my first editorial ever! I...

It may amuse readers to learn that, when I was a pub owner, I was more concerned about the health effects of soda pop than liquor on my customers. Soft drinks have become an appalling concoction of chemicals sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, or even worse, aspartame.  ...

Did you ever stop to wonder how the pyramids really got built? And I’m not talking about that nonsense we all got fed in school about thousands of slaves with ropes and whips and logs supposedly moving giant blocks of stone weighing hundreds of tons.   And this did...

Are you one of the over 6,000 registered PAFD Lotto entrants who eagerly await the Saturday evening Lotto Draw? Have you ever wondered how the lucky winners, or not so lucky non-winners, get their names picked? We ourselves were curious, and asked Chief Phil Walker if we could let...

About a year and a half ago, as I was chatting on the phone with my Aunt C., she mentioned that she got frequent leg cramps during the night. I winced with sympathy… every once in awhile I get a leg or foot cramp at night, and it’s definitely...

They say small businesses are the backbone of the Canadian Economy. And they ain’t just whistling Dixie…our small businesses pay the bulk of the taxes that support our infrastructure, our roads, our services, our health care, our social safety nets….everything! By comparison, our major corporations pay very little in...