Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:43AM 
Once again this year I took note of how candy mania “feeds” the festive atmosphere of the annual Steinbach parade. By far the majority of persons lining the street were children on summer holidays accompanied of course by adult caregivers and a sprinkling of senior citizens. Who else gets a Friday morning off in mid-summer?
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 5:39PM 
David Dawson, a long time participant and supporter of the South Eastman Transition Initiative and frequent contributor to Rethinking Lifestyle, has passed away. He was 76. Regular readers of this column will immediately recall some of David’s more contentious, opinionated views. Many have no doubt scowled in indignation or laughed in agreement with his commentary - either because you disagreed with him, or because you agreed and wouldn’t have had the audacity to say it so bluntly yourself.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 9:19AM 
Your clothes want to be dry. You can wet them all you want but as soon as you spread them out, they’ll return to their natural state of humidity – the same as all the other items around them. It seems silly then, to waste the highest form of energy (electricity) by degrading it into the lowest (heat) just to accomplish the same task just so you can avoid going outside.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:28PM 
No doubt Canada is extremely dependant on oil. Ours is a cold climate, and we need to expend more energy than most countries just to keep warm. Also our country is sparsely populated and because of this we need to travel greater distances just to remain in touch with one another and to move goods between different parts of the country. There is a good reason for our dependence on oil, but are we addicted? I submit we are addicted! Hear me out.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 11:15AM 
The Federal Government wants to ban single-use plastic by 2021. We’ve all seen the pictures of the plastic waste continually circulating in the oceans or marine animals that have died from eating plastic or become wrapped up in it; we’ve been to beaches and parks and seen plastic items half buried or hung up in trees; on a windy day on recycling collection day our neighbourhoods are unintentionally decorated with plastic.