Reporters watchdogs as Supreme Court breaks deals to convict

Published July 5, 2011 by Winnipeg Free Press (Editorials page A11) In response to Dan Lett’s “High court says plea deals can be broken” in the Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, June 25, 2011 Dogs and reporters have one thing in common: it’s their job to snarl and snap at your heels until you face the [...]

Kendo students clash “green” Samurai swords to honour Japan

What discipline do you choose to practice that wakes you up to self-awareness? This evening I teetered on a narrow wooden bench hugging a cold cement wall in the basement of the Duckworth Centre at the University of Winnipeg to watch students practice the art of the Japanese Samurai swordsman at my first Kendo Tournament. [...]

Water is a Human Right: UN and Manitobans care about First Nations in Canada

Water is a Human Right, posted with vodpod A couple of public relations students and I did some digging in the muddy, flood-infested Manitoba backwaters. We came across some hidden bones we thought deserved a spotlight. We got angry, and we got inspired…to create a public service announcement about the plight of our fellow citizens, the [...]

DO NOT VOTE! Harper’s Conservatives Break Democracy Laws in Canada

Do not vote. Don’t waste your time. Why not? Because your vote will not count. Nothing will change. Canada‘s Prime Minister Stephen Harper can’t govern because elected Parliament representatives refused to pass the Conservative budget. His other minor stumbling blocks include breaking democratic laws about election spending and hiding information in contempt of Parliament. So, [...]

Protect Japan Victims of Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Radiation

My friends are scraping their pennies together to support Japanese victims of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdowns. As jet streams and web streams bring nuclear fallout and news of lives lost from the Japanese triple threat east to North America, donations to the Canadian Red Cross flood in. Hundreds of Japanese and non-Japanese [...]

You can never step in the same river twice!

Change is good. Especially if your audience demands it! Notice the new WordPress template called Greyzed? Now visitors to Wordbone won’t get queasy trying to navigate the blog on the previous dark blue and green “In Motion” background. What good is sending a message in a bottle out to the blogosphere, if people need Gravol and [...]

Hello world!

‘evening all! Wordbone signing on for the first time, so gimme some love till I get the hang of blogging. As a student of the word, I’m  digging up the bones, writing down the bones and burying a few I would rather forget. For starters, a talk I shared with a couple of friends at [...]