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On The Other Hand
Award-winning author and journalist Penney Kome has published six non-fiction books and hundreds of periodical articles, as well as writing a national column for 12 years and a local column in Calgary for four years. She was editor of Straightgoods.com between 2004-2013.
Blog - On The Other Hand March 4 Penney Kome | Consumers and investors have a new reporting framework that uses environmental, social, and governance standards to measure corporations. |
Blog - On The Other Hand December 16 Penney Kome | Claiming to have won the 2020 presidential election may be among Trump's most startling denials of reality, but as with most of his words and deeds, he has an agenda. |
Blog - On The Other Hand November 9 Penney Kome | Trump has so far refused to concede that Joe Biden has won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a dangerous tactic that could strain the mettle of American democracy. |
Blog - On The Other Hand October 27 Penney Kome | Current polls suggest Democratic candidate Joe Biden is on course to win the 2020 election. But polls only matter if Americans can actually vote. |
Blog - On The Other Hand October 16 Penney Kome | As the first Black U.S. vice-presidential candidate, Harris is breaking a barrier on the world stage. |
Blog - On The Other Hand October 8 Penney Kome | Trump has acted like the "Pied Piper of Pandemic": a presidential candidate ready to disregard health guidelines and endanger his own supporters. |
Blog - On The Other Hand September 18 Penney Kome | Democrats Abroad says U.S. voters from Canada could significantly affect the U.S. national election results -- if enough of them vote. |
Blog - On The Other Hand September 1 Penney Kome | Irony abounds in the U.S. presidential election campaign, especially the recent Democratic and Republican conventions. |
Blog - On The Other Hand July 10 Penney Kome | The U.S. Supreme Court recently clamped down on "faithless electors," but other dangers to American democracy remain. |
Blog - On The Other Hand June 29 Penney Kome | The president's shoddy handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his response to the police murder of George Floyd have all contributed to a sharp decline in opinion polls. |
Blog - On The Other Hand June 15 Penney Kome | We need an economic metric that includes social and environmental costs, and to put our efforts into reviving the global ecology that sustains us all. |
Blog - On The Other Hand May 30 Penney Kome | The pandemic is showing us all our weaknesses. We have time to correct them, before we destroy the planet in the endless pursuit of profit. |
Blog - On The Other Hand May 1 Penney Kome | With grim economic prospects forecast as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigns have launched to rebuild the economy differently. |
Blog - On The Other Hand April 21 Penney Kome | Seventy countries have heeded the UN secretary-general's call to come together to fight COVID-19. If we can give up war during a pandemic, why can't we give it up permanently? |
Blog - On The Other Hand April 9 Penney Kome | The economy will have to change to accommodate contagion concerns that are likely to continue for two or three years due to uneven isolation rules. |
Blog - On The Other Hand March 30 Penney Kome | A managed decline would offer security and ease transition to a zero-carbon economy. |
Blog - On The Other Hand March 20 Penney Kome | So many other motives blur U.S. policies on COVID-19 that the U.S. has fallen dangerously far behind other nations in trying to flatten the curve. |
Blog - On The Other Hand March 10 Penney Kome | Activists call for "fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty" to control remaining fuels' carbon emissions. |
Blog - On The Other Hand September 8 Penney Kome | Two jarring incidents occurred at the end of August that could indicate more complications than usual in the upcoming federal election. |
Blog - On The Other Hand August 22 Penney Kome | Ready or not, we are embarking on an experiment to see whether Harper's legacy of election laws can support an actual election. |
Blog - On The Other Hand July 23 Penney Kome | Insect-free summer may be a worrisome sign that extinction is in progress. |
Blog - On The Other Hand July 7 Penney Kome | The recently passed legislation prohibits civil servants from wearing religious symbols, such as a headscarf or a turban. |
Blog - On The Other Hand June 18 Penney Kome | Canada leads the way with a new monster international fund to promote gender equality, women's empowerment, and reproductive health. |
Blog - On The Other Hand June 4 Penney Kome | Women Deliver's main pitch is to make sure that women's specific concerns are included as developing nations strive to expand their economies. |
Blog - On The Other Hand May 5 Penney Kome | If the Pope invited the prime minister's family to visit for the holidays, and sent a private jet to pick them up, would the Opposition be hinting at a breach of ethics? |
Blog - On The Other Hand April 23 Penney Kome | Alberta election rancour just a sample of what federal election could bring. |
Blog - On The Other Hand April 15 Penney Kome | Calgary-Varsity candidate Anne McGrath has looked at Alberta from both sides now. |
Blog - On The Other Hand April 9 Penney Kome | Alberta Premier Rachel Notley doesn't back down from a fight. And her urge to stand up to bullies leads her to battle with Jason Kenney rather than promote all her own achievements. |
Blog - On The Other Hand March 20 Penney Kome | A reclaimed industry produces renewable food, shelter, clothing, and medicine, from one crop -- and we have hardly begun to explore the potential of the hemp plant's 25,000 marketable products. |
Blog - On The Other Hand March 12 Penney Kome | We have 12 years to curb climate breakdown. Experts supplied the science. Now youth and the increasingly militant climate justice movement are keeping up the pressure. |