Winterruption concert series highlights five local acts

Kudos to David Driedger for modelling a more appropriate and constructive role for religion in politics than the one that has become commonplace today (“Take care of them; there is enough”, Think Tank, July 27).

Resisting the temptation to preach, coerce and control, he has chosen to remind, persuade and challenge. It could hardly more different to what we are witnessing everyday to the south of us. I thank him for his humility, courage and sense of responsibility to humanity.

Our recent experiences with religion’s forays into the political realm, both in the U.S. and parts of Canada have done little to endear us to either one. Religious fundamentalism, in its many forms, has wrought untold havoc on governments across the globe, with some of the most toxic iterations being right on our doorsteps — we might even call it a form of domestic terrorism.

In the U.S., Christian nationalism, represented by MAGA, has contaminated government and ordinary lives like a hazardous toxin escaping containment — corroding and poisoning the presidency, the legislature, the court system and law enforcement, and in the process threatening the very relationships which make a civilized society possible. Simply put, the positive ideal of godliness in the American constitution, which emphasized tolerance for, acceptance of and upheld the equal worth of all peoples is in peril.

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions after 5:45 a.m. The moon is in Virgo.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

This is an excellent day to make plans about your domestic needs as well as social occasions, vacations and matters related to kids. You can accomplish a lot at work because you have the mental energy to get things done. This is a work-hard/party-hard day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Tyson Sylvester wants to study computer science.

He has the intelligence, the determination, and the ambition to succeed in post-secondary education. Like thousands of young Manitobans graduating from high school, he wants to pursue higher education and build a career.

Instead, he is spending his young adult life fighting the provincial government to simply receive the supports he needs to get there.

Tyson lives with cerebral palsy, is blind and uses a wheelchair. The irony here is that Tyson can’t get government support because he scored too high on an IQ test.

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