A Canadian Storyteller in the Bush
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For today just a quick reminder that Canada's story is mainly of a disparate people striving interdependently for better lives and higher purposes in a vast northern land. We need to remember that story when we hear the term 'nation-building'.
July 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
For today just a quick reminder that Canada's story is mainly of a disparate people striving interdependently for better lives and higher purposes in a vast northern land. We need to remember that story when we hear the term 'nation-building'.
The KnICH Society, newly forming, has proposed, as a nation-building project, that July be officially declared Canadian History Month, and will apply Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour to celebrating it. We begin at the beginning. Canadian Geography, Peoples months to follow. Here we go!
July 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The KnICH Society, newly forming, has proposed, as a nation-building project, that July be officially declared Canadian History Month, and will apply Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour to celebrating it. We begin at the beginning. Canadian Geography, Peoples months to follow. Here we go!
To meet the new NATO standard of 5% will require Canada to cultivate a very different military from the one we have now. The job needs to be seen as a nation-building project, developing young adults as nation-builders within society, not warriors or even peace-keepers apart from it. It can be done.
June 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
To meet the new NATO standard of 5% will require Canada to cultivate a very different military from the one we have now. The job needs to be seen as a nation-building project, developing young adults as nation-builders within society, not warriors or even peace-keepers apart from it. It can be done.
To the poem below I add, for our time:
What though madmen haunt the halls
Of naked power in this world
Of woe, with their blood-thirsty calls
For explosive death?
While we have breath
We'll fly the flag of hope unfurled.
Nil desperandum.
What though madmen haunt the halls
Of naked power in this world
Of woe, with their blood-thirsty calls
For explosive death?
While we have breath
We'll fly the flag of hope unfurled.
Nil desperandum.
June 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
To the poem below I add, for our time:
What though madmen haunt the halls
Of naked power in this world
Of woe, with their blood-thirsty calls
For explosive death?
While we have breath
We'll fly the flag of hope unfurled.
Nil desperandum.
What though madmen haunt the halls
Of naked power in this world
Of woe, with their blood-thirsty calls
For explosive death?
While we have breath
We'll fly the flag of hope unfurled.
Nil desperandum.
"Reconciliation" and "consultation" are current, important words that the indigenous and governmental sides of the negotiations mean and use differently, with adverse consequences. Set ways on both sides may make meanings irreconcilable. Massive changes in thinking and institutions may be needed.
June 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Reconciliation" and "consultation" are current, important words that the indigenous and governmental sides of the negotiations mean and use differently, with adverse consequences. Set ways on both sides may make meanings irreconcilable. Massive changes in thinking and institutions may be needed.
Those indigenous to northern Ontario should say to Doug Ford: You may not exploit the Rim of Fire because it is not your land. It never was Britain's to give away, nor HBC's to sell, nor Canada's to buy and give to Ontario. It is our land, and if you want the minerals you must deal with us. Period.
June 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Those indigenous to northern Ontario should say to Doug Ford: You may not exploit the Rim of Fire because it is not your land. It never was Britain's to give away, nor HBC's to sell, nor Canada's to buy and give to Ontario. It is our land, and if you want the minerals you must deal with us. Period.
Meditating on the people who voted for or otherwise support Mr. Trump: what unhappiness, disappointment or pain would induce them to do that? How can we help to alleviate? Perhaps by reaching out as friends. Probably not by taxing our own people in order to hurt them, in unimaginative retaliation.
June 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Meditating on the people who voted for or otherwise support Mr. Trump: what unhappiness, disappointment or pain would induce them to do that? How can we help to alleviate? Perhaps by reaching out as friends. Probably not by taxing our own people in order to hurt them, in unimaginative retaliation.
Awoke thinking about The Humanities, i.e. the academic category, and its reputed present irrelevance. Words arising: humanities, humanity, humanite, human. Words also always arising in my mind: KnICH: Knowledge, Imagination, Compassion, Humour. Surreason. Relevant? Essential humanities? Surely.
June 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Awoke thinking about The Humanities, i.e. the academic category, and its reputed present irrelevance. Words arising: humanities, humanity, humanite, human. Words also always arising in my mind: KnICH: Knowledge, Imagination, Compassion, Humour. Surreason. Relevant? Essential humanities? Surely.
Some friends recently sold a fine, liveable, family-worthy, inherited home in Toronto, which will be torn down by the new owners and replaced by a grander one. Such a waste, when home-building resources of all kinds are so badly needed to build new homes just like the one being destroyed. I protest.
May 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Some friends recently sold a fine, liveable, family-worthy, inherited home in Toronto, which will be torn down by the new owners and replaced by a grander one. Such a waste, when home-building resources of all kinds are so badly needed to build new homes just like the one being destroyed. I protest.
Canada's story is of a disparate people striving interdependently for better lives and higher purposes in a vast northern land. Our new cabinet: how will it strive? How will it thrive? In a cloud of carping negativity? Or something better, worthy of our role as their democratic employers?
May 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Canada's story is of a disparate people striving interdependently for better lives and higher purposes in a vast northern land. Our new cabinet: how will it strive? How will it thrive? In a cloud of carping negativity? Or something better, worthy of our role as their democratic employers?
A respected author, Tom Nichols, of "The Death of Expertise", said on TVO yesterday that a high standard of living has brought boredom with it. Did some Americans vote for Donald Trump simply because they're bored? What kind of civics is that? Is it possible the man is right? The horror! The horror!
May 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A respected author, Tom Nichols, of "The Death of Expertise", said on TVO yesterday that a high standard of living has brought boredom with it. Did some Americans vote for Donald Trump simply because they're bored? What kind of civics is that? Is it possible the man is right? The horror! The horror!
In the sporting realm, every winner needs a loser. We therefore salute Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators, enablers of winners, and assure Winnipeg's Jets that the game is winning no matter what. In the Coinonic Realm winners win, we all win, when nobody loses. There let us cancel losing.
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In the sporting realm, every winner needs a loser. We therefore salute Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators, enablers of winners, and assure Winnipeg's Jets that the game is winning no matter what. In the Coinonic Realm winners win, we all win, when nobody loses. There let us cancel losing.
We Canadians like minority governments! They are more humble than the other kind. It is up to parliamentarians of all parties to make them work. Serious governance and silly partisan games are not the same thing. MP's are well paid to govern, so they should govern.
May 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We Canadians like minority governments! They are more humble than the other kind. It is up to parliamentarians of all parties to make them work. Serious governance and silly partisan games are not the same thing. MP's are well paid to govern, so they should govern.
After careful consideration and no consultation with anyone else I am going to use the term "blurb" for a Bluesky post. It seemed to come naturally once I had thought of it, since our host's colour is blue, & since we his writers aspire to be urbane. I hope it catches on.
April 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
After careful consideration and no consultation with anyone else I am going to use the term "blurb" for a Bluesky post. It seemed to come naturally once I had thought of it, since our host's colour is blue, & since we his writers aspire to be urbane. I hope it catches on.
@utteraffirmation.bsky.social The first rule of anarchy: power to the powerful--military, financial, commercial, cultural, political. Beware of oligarchic anarchists, especially if ill-informed and narcissistic. Exponential anarchy.
April 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
@utteraffirmation.bsky.social The first rule of anarchy: power to the powerful--military, financial, commercial, cultural, political. Beware of oligarchic anarchists, especially if ill-informed and narcissistic. Exponential anarchy.
The first rule of anarchy: power to the powerful--military, financial, commercial, cultural, political. Beware of oligarchic anarchists, especially if ill-informed and narcissistic. Exponential anarchy.
April 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The first rule of anarchy: power to the powerful--military, financial, commercial, cultural, political. Beware of oligarchic anarchists, especially if ill-informed and narcissistic. Exponential anarchy.
March winds and April ice storms and snows bring forth May ... what? Flowers we hope, but only a brave forecaster would project this year. Yikes! I thought the snow shovel was at rest finally. No such luck. And this stuff is hanging around, not melting away rapidly. Double yikes!
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
March winds and April ice storms and snows bring forth May ... what? Flowers we hope, but only a brave forecaster would project this year. Yikes! I thought the snow shovel was at rest finally. No such luck. And this stuff is hanging around, not melting away rapidly. Double yikes!
Ideas for term for Bluesky posts: Bleeps. Bloops. Blips. Or simply Blueskies.
April 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ideas for term for Bluesky posts: Bleeps. Bloops. Blips. Or simply Blueskies.
What are we going to call Bluesky posts? "Skeets" is feeble. Bleeps? Bloops? Blips? I myself like Bloops, although Blips is witty.
April 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
What are we going to call Bluesky posts? "Skeets" is feeble. Bleeps? Bloops? Blips? I myself like Bloops, although Blips is witty.
Story this week is the ice storm. Home piece of bush did not get the worst of it, but bad enough. Scrupulous observation not needed; everything outside was covered with ice in varying depths. Some damage to trees. Home power stayed on but many neighbours not so fortunate.
March 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Story this week is the ice storm. Home piece of bush did not get the worst of it, but bad enough. Scrupulous observation not needed; everything outside was covered with ice in varying depths. Some damage to trees. Home power stayed on but many neighbours not so fortunate.
KnICH = Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour: a tetrad invented by Stephen Leacock. Personified in utterance as she/her. Published in spirit as KnICH Magazine: @knichmagazine.bsky.social Utterances resolutely idealistical and affirmative.
March 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
KnICH = Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour: a tetrad invented by Stephen Leacock. Personified in utterance as she/her. Published in spirit as KnICH Magazine: @knichmagazine.bsky.social Utterances resolutely idealistical and affirmative.
The CBC persists in calling this a "snap" election. It is in fact entirely timely: a minority house, a new PM with no seat in it, international volatility, people being egged on to worry, and egging themselves on--an election is just what we need to clear the air and settle things down.
March 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The CBC persists in calling this a "snap" election. It is in fact entirely timely: a minority house, a new PM with no seat in it, international volatility, people being egged on to worry, and egging themselves on--an election is just what we need to clear the air and settle things down.
This site is beginning to take shape, just in time for the Canadian election campaign. I propose to converse along with it, sniffing for that which I probably will not find, which is grounds for idealistical affirmation. Canada yearns to be a New Jerusalem. Wish her well.
March 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This site is beginning to take shape, just in time for the Canadian election campaign. I propose to converse along with it, sniffing for that which I probably will not find, which is grounds for idealistical affirmation. Canada yearns to be a New Jerusalem. Wish her well.
Just joined. Looking forward to participating, beaking off on all manner of fronts, mainly narrative, coinonic, multivariate, interdependent, simultaneous, stochastic; aligned with KnICH Magazine = Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour. @knichmagazine.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just joined. Looking forward to participating, beaking off on all manner of fronts, mainly narrative, coinonic, multivariate, interdependent, simultaneous, stochastic; aligned with KnICH Magazine = Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour. @knichmagazine.bsky.social