Category: signs of spring

Signs of Spring? This sign stands in an empty spring LTC flowerbed. Field of text made up of a…

Signs of Spring?

This alt text only allows 200 characters, not enough to describe the sign planted in an empty spring flowerbed at the Long Term Care home where my mother lives, so the sign is described in the post.

This sign stands in an empty spring LTC flowerbed.

Field of text made up of a recurring list of front line workers, in differeny colours and sizes of text, including:

“Police, Health Care Workers, Nurses, Manufacturing, Pharmacists, Trades Workers, PSWs, Paramedics, Nurses, Hospital Staff, Firefighters, Day Care Workers, Paramedics, Truck Drivers, Gas Station Attendants, Long Term Care, Postal Delivery, Paramedics, Doctors, Couriers, Grocery Store Staff.

"In the centre is the outline of a maple leaf holding text that reads: To everyone making a difference… Thank You.

”#FLATTENTHECURVE #STOPTHESPREAD"

I took the photo because Grocery Store Staff was listed prominently, and as I’ve been working as a grocery store cashier, I appreciated it.

But looking more closely at the text for the purposes of this post, I became disturbed by the frequency of the word “police.”

Yes, police are front line workers, but bloated police budgets not only deprive valuable social services of funding, the stories of police behaving badly, abusing their power, have not abated despite the pandemic.

So I wouldn’t have this sign on my lawn if you paid me.

When we cut down trees…Ignorance Fuels the Climate CrisisThe reason we hear politicians…

When we cut down trees…

Ignorance Fuels the Climate Crisis

The reason we hear politicians promising to plant millions of trees to fight #ClimateChange is living trees store carbon. The bigger the tree, the more carbon.

Every perfectly healthy big tree that is wantonly cut down for landscaping reasons releases the carbon it had sequestered throughout its life.

It is positively crazy to be cuttting the tiny sliver of old growth forrest remaining in Canada.