Sep 15, 20198 min read
I HAVE QUESTIONS
For an assignment prompt we were asked to read the following article about the nutritional and ecological value and ethical superiority...
May 16, 20196 min read
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE NEW DEAL
You’ve likely noticed Progressives in America all atwitter with talk of what is being called the Green New Deal. And, as the nation that...
Dec 17, 20185 min read
COLOURBLINDNESS
I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...
Nov 11, 20182 min read
UNKNOWN
Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...
Oct 7, 20185 min read
+10,000
Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...
Apr 11, 201822 min read
UGANDA JOURNAL - MONTH TWO
I brought with me a little souvenir from my Nile trip: malaria. Despite being paranoid and always being covered up (only ever wearing...
Mar 3, 201811 min read
UGANDA JOURNAL - MONTH ONE
While I had no jet lag of any kind it has been a slow and steamy transition from -32 Calgary to feeling comfortable in equatorial Africa....
Jan 15, 20183 min read
THE NEW REVENGE PORN
I just heard about Aziz Ansari. I worry you won't read the victim's words and just assume this case to be like most of the others. It is...
Dec 10, 20174 min read
PEOPLE DON'T LIE
A favourite statement regularly heard repeated in recent months is that “people don't lie about abuse.” This is sometimes modified to...
Jun 6, 20172 min read
LEGACY
On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...
