Tagged: Ed Michalik

Green Shambhala breakdown – corrections

With all contrarian‘s recent pulpiteering on the dos and donts of newspaper corrections (here, here, here, here, and here), it’s only fitting we should get to guzzle down some of our own medicine.

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Green Shambhala breakdown

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The late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (left) and modern day acolyte Ryan Watson, outgoing leader of Nova Scotia's Green Party

Coast News Editor Tim Bousquet has stirred things up with his report of a festering schism within Halifax’s Shambhala Buddhist community, and Green Party gadfly Mike Marshall claims the same breach underlies bizarre behaviour by outgoing party leader Ryan Watson and his executive.

Bousquet reports that dissidents, including Mark Szpakowski, Ed Michalik, and Andrew Safer, have set up RadioFreeShambhala, a website to foster discussion they say mainstream Shambhala leadership discourages.

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