I have confessed several times that I am completely obsessed with Brexit. Pam and I arrive in the UK the day when Brexit is to be implemented. I can’t wait to be amongst the action! I thought you’d like some of the human ramifications of Brexit. Like this one: … [Read more...]
Garry Writes – 8 October 2019
A woman I have huge respect for, because of her balanced, but strong feminist views, and her tactical skills and political observations, said something to me recently which brought me up with a start. She said that she was suspicious of the Labour sex scandal which had been all over the … [Read more...]
Last Week – Forest and Bird
Last week we had Annabeth Cohen who gave an excellent summary of the proposed legislation to clean up our rivers. I found it fascinating. Here is a link to how you can make submissions to the Government on the proposed clean waters legislation Here is Aaron Campbell’s video of the talk. … [Read more...]
This Week – Sara and Mike
This week’s speakers will be City Councillors Sara Templeton and Mike Davidson. These Councillors have been passionate advocates for cycleways in this City. This week the Press covered the success of the cycleways in this article … [Read more...]
Greta
I have really enjoyed that us stale pale males have been beaten up by many columnists around the world when opinion leaders, like Mike Hosking and Duncan Garner, have written criticising Greta Thunberg, and not the message she is warning us about. I thought this article was … [Read more...]
Scape is another great thing in this City:
We are so fortunate having the “Scape” Trust in this City. It has the following objective as an organisation: SCAPE Public Art installs free-to-view contemporary public art in Christchurch city. Our vision is for Christchurch people to be excited, engaged and stimulated by the contemporary public … [Read more...]
Get Out and VOTE
It’s a real worry that the voting pattern right around New Zealand is bad for the Local Government elections. If we look at Christchurch by this time in 2010 the percentage was 21.94%; in 2013 it was 24.21%; in 2016 it was 21.18%; and this year it is 17.58%. These numbers should cause our … [Read more...]
Response to last week’s notes on Pratt & Whitney being supported by CCC to come here:
I had a number of people get in touch with me and say how much they enjoyed reading about CCC’s activist approach to getting Pratt & Whitney to this City. One response was really interesting and this person wrote: Are you aware that it is not uncommon in Germany for local authorities to take … [Read more...]
Merivale Mall expansion
Ex-councillor John Burn, who has been leading the pushback against the approval of a huge increase in size of Merivale Mall, granted without any public notice, has given me a copy of his letter to supporters last week. The commissioner, plus two community board members, despite this … [Read more...]
Ihumaatao:
I know that I have written about this many times, but I think the challenge of Ihumaatao is something which all of us have an interest in. This article gives some interesting background info on the historic aspects of this dispute: … [Read more...]
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