About UC News
The
takeover
of
your
local
paper
by
media
giants
means
you
have
no
voice.
The
issues
you
care
about
are
not
discussed.
The
events
you
create
are
not
covered.
A
small
three-line
ad
costs
a
fortune.
This
is
not
just
about
a
few
people
making
millions.
It’s
about
making
sure
you
have
no
say
about
anything
that
impacts
your
life
and
future.
It’s
about
keeping
you
quiet. It’s about stopping communication.
UC
News
is
biased:
1)
we
regard
the
World
Scientists’
Warning
to
Humanity
as
the
most
important
document
in
world
history,
for
it
outlines
the
fate
of
this
generation
of
Canadian
children;
2)
we
regard
the
Canadian
Constitution
and
our
Charter
of
Rights
and
Freedoms
as
critical
to
defending
your
life,
for
it
describes
what
you
are
free
to
do
in
defense
of
your
life;
3)
we
regard
the
Speech
From
the
Throne
as
one
of
few
remaining
ways
that
Canadians
can
say
what
needs
doing;
4)
we
regard
your
personal
experience
of
life
in
Canada
as
critical
to
reporting
what
is
happening.
We
have
additional
biases:
5)
we
hold
the
defense
of
vulnerable
people
including
children
and
grandparents
in
highest
regard;
6)
we
want
everything
said
to
have
a
defensible
basis
in
fact,
reality
and
the
foundations
of
law;
7)
we
prioritize
essential
human
needs
over
wants;
8)
we
defend
care
for
people
and
the
ecosystems
that
sustain
our
lives
as
the
sole
basis
of
our economy.
In
general,
we
aim
to
overcome
a
long
list
of
cognitive
biases
including
prejudice.
We
will
fail.
Some
people
want
you
to
keep
quiet
about
the
most
important
issues
of
the
day.
When
we
cannot
talk
about
the
major
issues,
we
nitpick
the
minor
details.
We
encourage
you
to
say
what
you
need
to
say.
Our
lives are in trouble. We need to talk.
UC
News
is
a
democratic
social
enterprise.
It
is
focused
on
doing
what
is
needed
to
tackle
the
most
urgent
crisis
ever
to
face
humanity.
It’s
not
just
climate
change.
It’s
farms,
forests,
fisheries
and
lives
worn
thin.
It’s
about
an
unfair,
unaffordable
life,
permanent
lifetime
debt
for
essential
needs,
having
no
way
out.
It’s
about
the grim future our kids face.
What
is
worth
living
for?
What
is
worth
dying
for?
For
many
of
us,
we
already
know
the
answer.
Our
children.
As
caring
parents,
this
is
not
the
world
we
want
for
our
kids.
There
is
no
force
on
the
planet
greater
than
caring
parents
acting
in
strength
and
wisdom
to
defend
the future for their children.
Here,
we
call
on
all
people
with
strength
and
spirit,
brains
and
backbone,
to
know
yourselves
not
as
weak
and
helpless,
but
as
defenders
of
life.
Now
is
the
time
for
you
to
use
all
you
know
in
care
for
others
and
the
ecosystems
that
sustain
our
lives
as
the
sole
basis
of
our
economy.
You
have
the
right
to
life,
and
all
that
entails.
It’s in our Constitution.
Canada
has
a
long
history
of
preferring
pen
over
sword.
We
saw
a
bloody
civil
war
south
of
the
border
and
chose
to
confederate
peacefully
over
time.
As
other
countries
fell
into
ethnic
or
religious
conflict,
we
chose
to create a respectful multicultural society.
But
we
are
in
grave
danger.
The
situation
is
like
knowing
we
have
not
planted
enough
wheat
to
make
it
through
the
winter.
In
Canada
and
around
the
globe,
we
have
pushed
the
ecosystems
that
support
our
lives
to
the
limit.
Many
of
us
already
struggle
to
meet
essential
human
needs.
We
need
to
go
green
quickly,
finding
the
best
ways
to
relate
to
others
and
the
ecosystems
that
support our lives. I created UC News to do just that.
Dr. David Teertstra
What
we
are
not.
UC
News
addresses
social
needs
of
connection
frugally
in
a
do-it-yourself
manner
and
does
not
aim
to
compete
with
other
papers
for
advertising.
We
reject
gas-engine
car
ads,
chain
store
flyers,
real
estate
ads.
You
get
enough
of
that
elsewhere.
We
support
small
and
personal.
We
don’t
do
weather,
horoscopes
or
crossword
puzzles.
We
don’t
cover
events,
except
if
critical
to
meeting
essential
human
needs.
We
direct
you
to
events
listings
on
other
papers
and
websites
that
do
it
better.
We
want
to
save
the
planet,
not
waste
time
and
resources
on
fluff.
Don’t
make
it
about
you
or
your
group.
Make
it
about
us,
what
we
share
in
common
and
where
we
are
going
as
a
community,
a
planet,
a
species.
We
are
guided
by
the
World
Scientists’
Warning
to
Humanity,
the
drive
away
from
war-like
attitudes
as
summarized
in
the
Universal
Declaration
of
Human
Rights,
the
Canadian
Charter
of
Rights
and
Freedoms,
and
what
Canadians
say
they
need
done
as
summarized
in
the
Speech
From
The
Throne.
We
are
guided
by
the
fundamentals
of
care
and
love
expressed
in
families
struggling
to
make
ends
meet.
We
are
guided
by
law
based
firmly
in
fact
and
reality,
and
by
our
spirit
to
transcend
the
circumstances.
An
introduction
to
our
core
beliefs
in
a
fair,
free
and
sustainable
future
is
given
in
the
Declaration
of
Canadian
Rights.
You
are
of
course
free
to
improve
this
open
living
document
or
take
the
time
to
declare
what
you
believe
in.
We
thank
Epson
for
developing
the
eco-tank
printers
that
make
this
economically
possible.