Jim Harding's Column
Jim Harding is a retired professor of justice studies at the University of Regina. He is a founding member of the Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society and was director of research for Prairie Justice Research at the University of Regina, where he headed up the Uranium Inquiries Project. Jim also acted as consultant to the NFB award-winning film Uranium. He is the author of Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System.
Jim has a regular weekly column in R Town News, papers that serve many towns in rural Saskatchewan. R Town and Jim have kindly given permission for us to post his column on our website as well. In most cases, we have included a PDF version to download. Please feel free to copy and distribute to others as long as you acknowledge the source.
December 16, 2011 Killing the Wheat Board, Kyoto and the Rule of Law
November 4, 2011 The Leader's Debate: Stiff, Predictable and Evasive
October 28, 2011 Premier Wall Can't Have It Both Ways
October 14, 2011 How Does Saskatchewan "Grade" On Renewable Energy?
September 30, 2011 Can The Greens Become Saskatchewan's Third Party?
September 23, 2011 Should The NDP Apologize?
September 2, 2011 Moving Saskatchewan Forward....To A Toxic Economy
August 26, 2011 A Rude Awakening: The Northern Walk to Regina for a Nuclear Waste Ban
August 5, 2011 800 KM Walk Heats Up Nuclear Waste Controversy PDF version
June 10, 2011 Why The Northern Saskatchewan Forum Voted To Ban Nuclear Wastes
May 20, 2011 Canada Falling Behind Global Trend to Green Energy PDF version
May 13, 2011 What Harper's Majority Means for our Sustainability
April 22, 2011 Petition For Nuclear Waste Ban Presented To Premier Wall
April 15, 2011 Health and Trust: Hard Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
April 8, 2011 Harper's Bullying Won't Enhance Participatory Democracy or Sustainability
April 1, 2011 How Is Saskatchewan Involved With Japan’s Nuclear Disaster?
February 25, 2011 Why Colonial Mentality Can't Get Us To Sustainability PDF version
February 20, 2011 The Challenges Of Achieving A Nuclear Waste Ban PDF version
February 11, 2011 Wake Up Men: The Sustainability Clock Is Ticking PDF version
January 28, 2011 ‘Free Market’Ideology: Sugar-coated But Not Viable
January 21, 2011 Why Heritage and Sustainability Go Hand In Hand
December 10, 2010 What the Assembly of First Nations Says About Nuclear Waste PDF version
December 3, 2010 A Nuclear Waste Ban: Can We Take The Bull By The Horns? PDF version
November 26, 2010 Might BHP Billiton Be Back With a Uranium-Takeover Bid?
November 12, 2010 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Raises Big Questions About Reconciliation
November 5, 2010 Why Percy Schmeiser is a Pioneer of Sustainability
October 29, 2010 Saving Seeds Supports Sustainability
October 22, 2010 Why A Nuclear Waste Ban Is Needed In Saskatchewan PDF version
October 15, 2010 Saskatchewan Now Targeted For Nuclear Dump
October 8, 2010 “Grandfather” Of Organic Farming Dies
October 1, 2010 The North Deserves Better - part 2
September 24, 2010 The North Deserves Better - part 1
September 17, 2010 Conflict of Interest in Northern Saskatchewan
September 10, 2010 Watershed Gathering Attracts Five Hundred
August 20, 2010 Uranium Industry Self-Promotes: North Remains "Among Poorest" PDF version
August 21, 2010 What's the Alternative to Nuclear Colonialism in the North? PDF version
(Background paper prepared for "Keepers of the Water IV Gathering", Wollaston Lake, Aug. 21, 2010)
June 1, 2010 United Church Calls For Ban On Nuclear Wastes
June 4, 2010 A Close Look At A Pronuclear “Environmentalist” PDF
May 21, 2010 Do We Want Saskatchewan to Become a Nuclear Waste Dump? PDF
May 14, 2010 Why We'd Better Learn From the Gulf Oil Spill PDF
April 30, 2010 Overcoming the Nuclear Threat PDF version
April 16, 2010 Wildlife Management and the Call of the Wild PDF
March 19, 2010 Why Avatar Couldn't Win the Big Oscar PDF
March 12, 2010 Population and Morality: Why the Disconnects? PDF Version
March 5, 2010 Is a Bigger Population Better? PDF Version
February 26, 2010 After a Decade of Shock and Awe PDF Version
February 19, 2010 Can Disaster Point Us Towards Sustainability? PDF Version
Februrary 12, 2010 Will Haiti Be Rebuilt Sustainably? PDF Version
February 5, 2010 Carbon Capture, Offsets and Bonds: Will Any of Them Work? PDF Version
January 22, 2010 Can carbon-capture move us towards sustainability? PDF Version
January 15, 2010 What Challenges Face Renewable Energy? PDF Version
January 8, 2010 Are Alternative Sources of Energy Available? PDF version
December 31, 2009 After Copenhagen: A New Year's Resolution Worth Making PDF version
December 24, 2009 The University Needs Some Soul-Searching about Sustainability PDF version
December 4, 2009 Women’s Equality and Sustainability: What’s The Connection? PDF version
November 6, 2009 Just How Does Work and Income Shape Our Happiness? PDF version
October 30, 2009 How Can The Ecumenical Movement Help Move Us Towards Sustainability?
October 23, 2009 Why Is Climate Change Too “Earth-Shaking” To Remain a Political Football? PDF version
October 16, 2009 Why Did Manitoba Ban Nuclear Wastes...Over Two Decades Ago? PDF version
October 2, 2009 What’s The Alternative To Saskatchewan Becoming a Nuclear Dump? PDF version
Sept. 25 2009 Will Wall's Government Respect Its Consultation Process? PDF version
Sept. 18, 2009 Why Is Sask Party’s Uranium Development Partnership (UDP) Recommending We Become a Nuclear Waste Dump? PDF version
July 28, 2009 Can We Learn From Nuclear Experiments Elsewhere? PDF version
June 26, 2009 Is It Time To Listen To Our Nurses? PDF version
June 19, 2009 Do We Need More Balanced Reporting To Democratize Energy Policy? PDF version
June 12, 2009 Why Nuclear Workers Should Be Truthful About Nuclear Power PDF version
June 5, 2009 Will the UDP Consultations Enable the Public’s Voice to be Heard?
May 15, 2009 Why Are We So Oblivious About The Hazards of Uranium? PDF version
May 8, 2009 Shouldn’t We Look at the History of Uranium Mining?
May 1, 2009 Wall Government Has Head In the (tar) Sand
April 17, 2009 What policies are behind Saskpower's 2009 budget?
March 16, 2009 Is Sustainability Bringing Spirituality to a Crossroad?
March 6, 2009 Is nuclear really affordable
Feb. 20, 2009 We need honest community feedback on nuclear power. PDF version
Feb. 13, 2009 Is environmental health the new bottom line
Feb. 6, 2009 How “Green” Is The Federal Stimulus Package? PDF version
Jan. 30, 2009 Is nuclear energy clean? PDF version
Jan.16, 2009 Is Nuclear Power Sustainable? PDF version
Jan. 2, 2009 What Does Sustainability Mean?
Dec. 19, 2008 Nuclear Power Not Good Provider of Electricity.
Dec. 5, 2008 Big City Papers Under-Report
Read some of Jim's earlier columns here - Under Nuclear Myth Busting Series